Case No. IT-04-79-PT

IN TRIAL CHAMBER II

Before:
Judge Carmel Agius, Presiding

Registrar:
Mr. Hans Holthuis
Order of:
21 March 2005

PROSECUTOR

v.

Mico STANISIC

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ORDER REGARDING COMPOSITION OF TRIAL CHAMBER AND DESIGNATING A PRE-TRIAL JUDGE

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The Office of the Prosecutor:

Ms. Carla Del Ponte
Mr. Mark Harmon

The Accused:

Mico Stanisic

 

I, Carmel Agius, Presiding Judge of Trial Chamber II 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 ("Tribunal");

NOTING the Indictment in the case The Prosecutor v. Mico Stanisic confirmed by Judge Amin El Mahdi on 25 February 2005;

NOTING the Order issued by the President of the Tribunal dated 11 March 2005, assigning the case against Mico Stanisic to Trial Chamber II;

NOTING that the initial appearance of the accused Mico Stanisic pursuant to Rule 62 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the Tribunal ("Rules") took place before me on 17 March 2005;

CONSIDERING Article 13quater(1)(d) of the Statute of the Tribunal ("Statute") enabling ad litem Judges of the Tribunal to adjudicate in pre-trial proceedings;

CONSIDERING Rule 65ter(A) of the Rules providing that the Presiding Judge of the Trial Chamber shall "designate from among its members a Judge responsible for the pre-trial proceedings" ("pre-trial Judge");

NOTING the powers of a pre-trial Judge as set out in Rule 65ter of the Rules;

PURSUANT TO Article 13quater of the Statute and Rule 65ter of the Rules;

HEREBY ORDER that Trial Chamber II in the case The Prosecutor v. Mico Stanisic shall be composed as follows:

Judge Kevin Parker (Presiding)

Judge Krister Thelin

Judge Christine Van Den Wyngaert;

AND DESIGNATE:

Judge Krister Thelin as pre-trial Judge for this case.

 

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

Dated this twenty-first day of March 2005,
At The Hague
The Netherlands

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Judge Carmel Agius
Presiding

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