IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER
Before:
Judge Richard May, Presiding
Judge Mohamed Bennouna
Judge Patrick Robinson
Registrar:
Mrs. Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh
Order of:
19 March 1999
PROSECUTOR
v.
DARIO KORDIC
MARIO CERKEZ
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ORDER FOR DELAYED DISCLOSURE OF STATEMENT
AND PROTECTIVE MEASURES
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The Office of the Prosecutor:
Mr. Geoffrey Nice
Mr. Kenneth Scott
Ms. Susan Somers
Mr. Patrick Lopez-Terres
Counsel for the Accused:
Mr. Mitko Naumovski, Mr. Leo Andreis, Mr. David F. Geneson, Mr. Turner T. Smith, Jr.,
and Ms. Ksenija Turkovic, for Dario Kordic
Mr. 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 ("the International Tribunal"),
BEING SEISED OF the confidential ex parte "Prosecutors motion for ruling on disclosure and for protective measures" filed by the Office of the Prosecutor ("Prosecution") on 4 March 1999 ("the Motion"), seeking protective measures for the witness identified in the Motion, including the use of a pseudonym and non-disclosure to the Defence of identifying information,
NOTING the Order of this Trial Chamber of 5 March 1999 temporarily releasing the Prosecution from its obligation to disclose the statement of this witness, pending further order of the Trial Chamber,
NOTING the Order for measures to protect victims and witnesses issued by this Trial Chamber on 15 January 1999, which Order continues in full force and effect,
CONSIDERING Article 22 of the Statute of the International Tribunal ("the Statute") and Rules 75 and 79 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal ("Rules"),
CONSIDERING that the grant of a pseudonym and the temporary redaction of identifying information from the statement is appropriate for the privacy and protection of the witness but that the Trial Chamber is not persuaded, at this stage of the proceedings, of the need to grant full anonymity to this witness,
PURSUANT TO Rules 75 and 79 of the Rules
HEREBY ORDERS as follows:
Done in English and French, the English text being authoritative.
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Richard May
Presiding
Dated this nineteenth day of March 1999
At The Hague
The Netherlands
[Seal of the Tribunal]