Case No. IT-04-80-PT

IN TRIAL CHAMBER II

Before:
Judge Christine Van Den Wyngaert, Pre-Trial Judge

Registrar:
Mr. Hans Holthuis

Order of:
23 June 2005

PROSECUTOR

v.

Zdravko TOLIMIR
Radivoje MILETIC
Milan GVERO

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DECISION GRANTING EXTENSION OF TIME-LIMIT

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The Office of the Prosecutor:

Mr. Peter McCloskey

Counsel for the Accused:

Ms. Natacha Fauveau-Ivanovic for Radivoje Miletic
Mr. Dragan Krgovic for Milan Gvero

 

I, Christine Van Den Wyngaert, Judge 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;

HAVING BEEN SEISED of a "Joint Defence Request for an Extension of Time" ("Request") filed in French on 21 June 20051;

NOTING that the Defence for Radivoje Miletic and the Defence for Milan Gvero request additional time for submitting their response to the "Prosecution’s Motion for Joinder of Accused" ("Motion") filed on 10 June 2005;

NOTING that the Prosecution undertook to file by 24 June 2005 a motion seeking leave to bring a single Indictment regarding the Accused whose cases the Prosecution requests to have joined, including the present case;

NOTING that the Prosecution requested the review of the single Indictment to be carried out together with the consideration of the Motion;2

NOTING that the time-limit for filing a response to the Motion is about to expire and that the single Indictment has not yet been brought;

CONSIDERING that the single Indictment may be of relevance to the Defence response to the Motion;

PURSUANT TO Rules 65ter and 127 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence;

HEREBY GRANT the Request and INSTRUCT the Defence for both Accused that they will have seven days from the date of the filing of the single Indictment to file their response to the Motion.

 

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

Dated this twenty-third day of June 2005,
At The Hague,
The Netherlands

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Christine Van Den Wyngaert
Pre-Trial Judge


1. « Requête commune de la Défense aux fins de prorogation de délai  »
2. Motion, para 2.