IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER

Before:
Judge David Hunt, Presiding
Judge Antonio Cassese
Judge Florence Ndepele Mwachande Mumba

Registrar:
Mrs. Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh

Order of:
25 March 1999

PROSECUTOR

v.

MILORAD KRNOJELAC

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ORDER ON THE PROSECUTOR’S MOTION FOR AN EXTENSION
OF TIME TO FILE AN AMENDED INICTMENT

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The Office of the Prosecutor:

Mr. Franck Terrier
Ms. Peggy Kuo
Mrs. Hildegard Uertz-Retzlaff

Counsel for the Accused:

Mr. Mihajlo Bakrac
Mr. Miroslav Vasic

 

THIS TRIAL CHAMBER of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991 ("International Tribunal"),

BEING SEISED of the "Prosecutor’s Motion for Extension of Time to File Amended Indictment" filed 18 March 1999 ("Motion"),

NOTING the "Decision on the Defence Preliminary Motion on the Form of the Indictment" issued by the Trial Chamber on 24 February 1999 ("Decision"), which directed the Prosecutor to, inter alia, file and serve an amended indictment by 26 March 1999 ("Time limit"),

FURTHER NOTING that, in the Motion, the prosecution seeks an extension of the Time limit to 23 April 1999 on the basis of the illness of one of it’s co-counsel,

FURTHER NOTING the Scheduling Order issued on 22 March 1999,

FURTHER NOTING the Defence response to the Motion, filed on 25 March 1999, wherein the Defence states that it does not oppose the Motion,

CONSIDERING the need to ensure a fair and expeditious trial pursuant to Article 20, paragraph 1, of the Statute of the International Tribunal ("Statute"),

PURSUANT to Article 20, paragraph 1 of the Statute and Rule 54 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal,

HEREBY grants the Motion and orders the prosecution to file and serve an amended indictment in accordance with the Decision on or before 23 April 1999.

 

Done in English and French, the English text being authoritative.

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David Hunt
Presiding Judge
Dated this twenty fifth day of March 1999,

At The Hague,
The Netherlands

[Seal of the Tribunal]