IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER

Before: Judge Richard May

Judge Mohamed Bennouna

Judge Patrick Robinson

Registrar: Mrs. Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh

Order of: 8 January 1999

 

PROSECUTOR

v.

DARIO KORDIC
MARIO CERKEZ

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ORDER FOR CLOSED SESSION

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The Office of the Prosecutor:

Mr. Geoffrey Nice
Ms. Susan Somers
Mr. Patrick Lopez-Terres
Mr. Kenneth Scott

Counsel for the Republic of Croatia

Mr. David B. Rifkin, Jr.
Mr. Lee A. Casey
Mr. Darin R. Bartram

Counsel for the Accused:

Mr. Mitko Naumovski, Mr. Leo Andreis, Mr. Turner Smith, Mr. David Geneson and Mr. Ksenija Durkovic, for Dario KordicMr. Bozidar Kovacic, for Mario Cerkez

 

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 the "Prosecutor’s Motion for Amended Protective Order and Measures to Protect Victims and Witnesses" ("the Motion for Protective Measures") filed by the Office of the Prosecutor ("Prosecution") on 9 October 1998 and the responses thereto filed on behalf of the Defence,

BEING SEISED of the "Prosecutor’s Application for an Order to the Republic of Croatia for the Production of Documents" ("the Application for an Order") filed by the Prosecution on 24 July 1998 and the responses thereto filed on behalf of the Republic of Croatia,

BEING SEISED of the "Prosecutor’s Request for Hearing on Hunton & Williams’ Legal Representation of both the Government of the Republic of Croatia and the accused Dario Kordic ("the Application concerning Legal Representation") filed by the Prosecution on 18 December 1998 and the responses thereto filed on behalf of the Defence and on behalf of the Republic of Croatia on 5 January 1999

NOTING that the Motion for Protective Measures relates to matters concerning the privacy and protection of victims and witnesses as provided in Rule 75 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal ("Rules"),

NOTING that the Application for an Order relates to matters that may raise issues of national security,

NOTING that the Application concerning Legal Representation relates, inter alia, to matters concerning the right of an accused to counsel of his own choosing,

CONSIDERING that, as the Motion for Protective Measures relates to matters of the safety, security or non-disclosure of the identity of victims and witnesses, it is appropriate for the Motion for Protective Measures to be heard in closed session,

CONSIDERING FURTHER THAT it would be in the interests of justice for both the Application for an Order and the Application concerning Legal Representation to be heard in closed session,

PURSUANT TO RULE 79 of the Rules

HEREBY ORDERS that oral argument on the Motion for Protective Measures, the Application for an Order and the Application concerning Legal Representation shall be heard in closed session.

 

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

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Richard May

Presiding

Dated this eighth day of January 1999

At The Hague,

The Netherlands

[The seal of the Tribunal]