IN THE APPEALS CHAMBER

Before:
Judge David Hunt, Presiding
Judge Fouad Riad
Judge Wang Tieya
Judge Rafael Nieto-Navia
Judge Mohamed Bennouna

Registrar:
Mrs Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh

Order of:
29 July 1999

The PROSECUTOR

v

Zejnil DELALIC, Zdravko MUCIC (aka "PAVO"), Hazim DELIC
and Esad LANDZO (aka "ZENGA")

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ORDER ON MOTION TO AMEND BY SUBSTITUTION
THE APPEAL BRIEF OF ZDRAVKO MUCIC

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Office of the Prosecutor:

Mr Upawansa Yapa
Mr Christopher Staker
Mr Rodney Dixon
Mr Norman Farrell

Counsel for the Accused

Mr John Ackerman for Zejnil Delalic
Mr Howard Morrison for Zdravko Mucic
Mr Salih Karabdic and Mr Thomas Moran for Hazim Delic
Ms Cynthia Sinatra and Mr Peter Murphy for Esad Landzo

 

THE APPEALS 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 "Motion to Amend by Substitution the Appeal Brief of Zdravko Mucic Filed on 2 July 1999" filed on 15 July 1999 ("Motion");

NOTING the Order of 12 February 1999 that provides that the Appellants, including Zdravko Mucic ("Mucic”), had until 2 July 1999 to file their Appellant briefs;

NOTING that the Appellant’s Brief filed by Mucic on that day did not include any submissions in relation to his conviction upon Count 48 notwithstanding that he is appealing against that conviction;

ACCEPTING the explanation by counsel for Mucic that this omission was unintentional;

NOTING that Mucic seeks by his Motion to add submissions in relation to his appeal against that conviction;

NOTING the "Response to the Motion to Amend the Appeal Brief of Zdravko Mucic" filed on 28 July 1999, in which the Office of the Prosecutor states that it does not oppose the Motion;

CONSIDERING that Rule 127(A)(ii) of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal ("Rules") provides that, on good cause being shown by motion, an act may be recognised as validly done after the expiration of time on such terms as is thought just;

PURSUANT to Rule 127 of the Rules;

HEREBY GRANTS THE MOTION.

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

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Judge David Hunt
Presiding Judge

Dated this twenty-ninth day of July1999
At The Hague,
The Netherlands.

[Seal of the Tribunal]