Case No.: IT-02-54-T

IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER

Before:
Judge Richard May, Presiding
Judge Patrick Robinson
Judge O-Gon Kwon

Registrar:
Mr. Hans Holthuis

Order of:
23 January 2004

PROSECUTOR

v.

SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC

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DECISION ON PROSECUTION MOTION FOR THE TESTIMONY VIA VIDEO-CONFERENCE LINK OF GENERAL FERENC VEGH

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Office of the Prosecutor:

Mr. Geoffrey Nice
Ms. Hildegaard Uertz-Retzlaff
Mr. Dermot Groome

Amici Curiae:

Mr. Steven Kay
Mr. Branislav Tapuskovic
Prof. Timothy McCormack

The Accused:

Mr. Slobodan Milosevic

 

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 a "Prosecution Motion for the Testimony of Genral [sic] Ferenc Vegh via Video-Conference Link", filed by the Office of the Prosecutor ("Prosecution") on 23 January 2004, requesting that expert witness General Ferenc Vegh ("witness"), pursuant to Rule 71bis of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal ("Rules"), be permitted to testify by means of video-conference link due to serious health concerns,

NOTING that Rule 71bis of the Rules provides that, at the request of a party, a Trial Chamber may, in the interests of justice, order that testimony be received via video-conference link,

CONSIDERING that the Trial Chamber is satisfied that it is in the interests of justice to permit the Prosecution to call the witness via video-conference link,

NOTING Prosecutor v. Dusko Tadic, Case No. IT-94-1, "Decision on the Defence Motions to Summon and Protect Witnesses, and on Giving Evidence by Video-Link", 25 June 1996, para. 22 ("Tadic Decision") and the criteria set out therein for the giving of testimony by means of video-conference link,

PURSUANT to Rule 71bis of the Rules,

HEREBY GRANTS the Motion and ORDERS that the testimony of the witness shall be given by means of video-conference link according to the criteria set out in the Tadic Decision, and

REQUESTS the Registry of the International Tribunal to take all reasonable measures to ensure that the video-conference link is established according to the criteria set out in the Tadic Decision.

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

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Patrick Robinson
Judge

Dated this 23rd day of January 2004
At The Hague
The Netherlands

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