THE PRESIDENT OF THE TRIBUNAL

Before: President Gabrielle Kirk McDonald

Registrar: Mrs. Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh

Order of: 23 February 1999

 

PROSECUTOR

v.

Blagoje SIMIC
Milan SIMIC
Miroslav TADIC a/k/a Miro BRKO
Stevan TODOROVIC a/k/a Stiv a/k/a Stevo a/k/a MONSTRUM
Simo ZARIC a/k/a SOLAJA

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ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT AUTHORISING A TRIAL CHAMBER TO CONDUCT A MATTER IN THE ABSENCE OF ONE OF ITS MEMBERS

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The Office of the Prosecutor:

Ms. Anne-Birgitte Haslund
Ms. Nancy Paterson
Ms. Mary MacFadyen

Counsel for the Accused:

Mr. Branimir Avramovic, for Milan Simic
Mr. Igor Pantelic, for Miroslav Tadic
Mr. Deyan Ranko Brashich, for Stevan Todorovic
Mr. Borislav Pisarevic, for Simo Zaric

 

I, GABRIELLE KIRK MCDONALD, President 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,

NOTING that, pursuant to an Order dated 18 December 1998, Trial Chamber III, composed of Judge Richard May (Presiding), Judge Mohamed Bennouna and Judge Patrick Robinson, is seised of this case,

NOTING that, by its Scheduling Order of 28 January 1999, the Trial Chamber has set aside today, 23 February 1999, to hear oral argument on certain pre-trial motions filed by the Office of the Prosecutor and on the preliminary motions of the accused, Stevan Todorovic,

NOTING that, due to illness, Judge Richard May is absent from the seat of the International Tribunal today,

NOTING that the parties have agreed that, save for two preliminary motions in respect of which the accused, Stevan Todorovic, has requested an adjournment, the hearing may proceed in the absence of Judge May,

CONSIDERING that Rule 15 (E) of the Rules and Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal vests in me the power to authorise a Chamber, in case of illness or an unfilled vacancy or any other exceptional circumstances, to conduct routine matters in the absence of one or more of its members,

WITH THE AGREEMENT OF THE PARTIES

HEREBY AUTHORISE Trial Chamber III, composed of Judge Mohamed Bennouna and Judge Patrick Robinson to hear the agreed motions in the absence of Judge Richard May.

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

 

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Gabrielle Kirk McDonald

President

Dated this twenty-third day of February 1999

At The Hague

The Netherlands

[Seal of the Tribunal]