THE VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL

Before: Vice-President Florence Ndepele Mwachande Mumba

Registrar: Mrs. Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh

Order of: 22 March 2000

PROSECUTOR

v.

GORAN JELISIC

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ORDER FOR THE ASSIGNMENT OF A JUDGE TO THE APPEALS CHAMBER

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The Office of the Prosecutor:

Mr. Upawansa Yapa

Counsel for Goran Jelisic:

Mr. Veselin Londrovic
Mr. Michael Greaves

 

I, Florence Ndepele Mwachande Mumba, Vice-President 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"), exercising the functions of the President pursuant to Rule 21 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal ("Rules"),

NOTING Trial Chamber I’s Judgement against Goran Jelisic, pronounced on 19 October 1999;

NOTING the "Prosecution’s Notice of Appeal", filed on 21 October 1999;

NOTING the "Notice of Cross-Appeal", filed by Counsel for Goran Jelisic on 26 October 1999;

NOTING the "Order for the Assignment of Judges to the Appeals Chamber" issued on 3 December 1999;

NOTING Trial Chamber I’s written Judgement against Goran Jelisic, issued on 14 December 1999;

NOTING the "Notice of Appeal", filed by the Defence on 15 December 1999;

CONSIDERING that Judge Wang Tieya is recused from the Appeal pursuant to Rule 16 of the 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 Rule 27 of the Rules;

HAVING CONSULTED the Judges of the International Tribunal;

PURSUANT to Rule 21 of the Rules;

HEREBY DECIDE to assign Judge Fausto Pocar to the Appeals Chamber for the purposes of determining the Appeal;

AND THEREFORE, subject to sub-Rule 22(B) of the Rules, the Appeals Chamber for the Appeal shall be composed as follows:

Judge Lal Chand Vohrah

Judge Mohamed Shahabuddeen

Judge Rafael Nieto-Navia

Judge Patricia Wald

Judge Fausto Pocar

 

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

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Florence Mumba
Vice-President

Dated this twenty-second day of March 2000
At The Hague,
The Netherlands.

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