Order of the President for the Assignment of a Judge to the Appeals Chamber

THE PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL

Before: President Gabrielle Kirk McDonald

Registrar: Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh

Order of: 7 May 1999

THE 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
FOR THE ASSIGNMENT OF A JUDGE
TO THE APPEALS CHAMBER

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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 Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia;

NOTING the "Notice of Appeal and Appeal to the Appeal Chamber", filed by Counsel for Stevan Todorovic on 30 March 1999 ("Appeal");

CONSIDERING that Judge Fouad Abdel-Monem Riad has withdrawn from hearing the Appeal pursuant to Sub-rule 15(D)(i) of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal ("Rules");

NOTING that Article 12(b) of the Statute of the International Tribunal ("Statute") provides that five Judges shall serve on the Appeals Chamber;

CONSIDERING Article 14(3) of the Statute and Rules 27 and 72 of the Rules;

HAVING CONSULTED the Judges of the International Tribunal;

HEREBY DECIDE to assign the Judge Antonio Cassese to the Appeals Chamber for the purpose of deciding the Appeal.

THEREFORE the Appeals Chamber in the Appeal in case IT-95-9-AR72, the Prosecutor v Simic et. al. shall be composed as follows:

President Gabrielle Kirk McDonald, Presiding

Vice-President Mohamed Shahabuddeen,

Judge Antonio Cassese

Judge Wang Tieya

Judge Rafael Nieto-Navia

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

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Gabrielle Kirk McDonald
President

Dated this seventh day of May 1999
At The Hague,
The Netherlands.

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