THE PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL
Before: President Gabrielle Kirk McDonald
Registrar: Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh
Decision of: 9 April 1998
THE PROSECUTOR
v.
MILAN KOVACEVIC
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ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT FOR THE ASSIGNMENT OF A JUDGE
TO A TRIAL CHAMBER
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Office of the Prosecutor:
Mr. Grant Niemann
Mr. Michael Keegan
Mrs. Hildegard Uertz-Retzlaff
Mr. Morten Bergsmo
Counsel for the accused:
Mr. Dusan Vucicevic
Mr. Anthony DAmato
Mr. John Ostojic
I, Gabrielle Kirk McDonald, President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia,
CONSIDERING my Order of 20 November 1997, in which I assigned Judge Richard George May (presiding), Judge Lal Chand Vohrah and Judge Florence Ndepele Mwachande Mumba to Trial Chamber II bis to hear case number IT-97-24-PT, Prosecutor v. Milan Kovacevic,
CONSIDERING a request from Judge Lal Chand Vohrah to withdraw himself from this Trial Chamber II bis,
HAVING CONSULTED the Judges of the Tribunal,
CONSIDERING Article 14(3) of the Statute and Rules 15(A) and 27 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the Tribunal,
DECIDE to accept the request of Judge Lal Chand Vohrah to withdraw himself from Trial Chamber II bis , and
FURTHER DECIDE to assign Judge Antonio Cassese to sit in Judge Lal Chand Vohrahs place.
Trial Chamber II bis in the case IT-97-24-PT, Prosecutor v. Milan Kovacevic, will then be become Trial Chamber II in the following composition:
Judge Richard George May (Presiding)
Judge Antonio Cassese
Judge Florence Ndepele Mwachande Mumba
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Gabrielle Kirk McDonald
President
Dated this ninth day of April 1998
At The Hague
The Netherlands
[Seal of the Tribunal]