IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER
Before:
Judge Patrick Robinson, Presiding
Judge David
Hunt
Judge Mohamed Bennouna
Registrar:
Mrs. Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh
Order of:
29 September 1999
PROSECUTOR
v.
BLAGOJE SIMIC
MILAN SIMIC
MIROSLAV TADIC
STEVAN
TODOROVIC
SIMO ZARIC
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ORDER RELEASING CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS
IN THE MATTER OF
CONTEMPT ALLEGATIONS
AGAINST DEFENCE COUNSEL AND AN ACCUSED
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Mr. Peter Haynes, for Mr. Branislav Avramovic and Milan Simic
Concerned Parties
Mr. Dirk Ryneveld, Ms. Nancy Patterson, Ms. Suzanne Hayden and Mr. Dan Saxon,
for the Office of the Prosecutor
Messrs. Igor
Pantelic and Novak Lukic, for Miroslav Tadic
Mr. Deyan Ranko Brashich, for
Stevan Todorovic
Messrs. Borislav Pisarevic and Aleksander Lazarevic, for
Simo Zaric
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 ("the International Tribunal"),
NOTING its confidential "Scheduling Order in the matter of allegations against accused Milan Simic and his counsel" issued by the Trial Chamber on 7 July 1999 setting out the allegations of contempt against the accused Milan Simic and his counsel, together with the confidential "Order in the matter of contempt allegations against defence counsel and an accused" issued on 17 September 1999 setting out the procedure to be followed in this matter (together "the Orders"),
NOTING the hearing in this matter which commenced on Wednesday 29 September 1999,
CONSIDERING that the Trial Chamber has ruled that the proceedings in this matter should, in principle, be conducted in public and therefore there is no reason for the specific nature of the allegations to remain confidential,
HEREBY LIFTS the confidential status of the Orders, copies of which are attached hereto.
All other provisions imposing measures for the protection of victims or witnesses remain in full force and effect.
Done in both English and French, the English text being authoritative.
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Patrick Robinson
Presiding
Dated this twenty-ninth day of September 1999
At The Hague
The
Netherlands
[Seal of the Tribunal]