IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER

Before:
Judge Richard May, Presiding
Judge Mohamed Bennouna
Judge Patrick Robinson

Registrar:
Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh

Order of:
13 April 2000

PROSECUTOR

v.

MOMCILO KRAJISNIK

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ORDER APPOINTING A PRE-TRIAL JUDGE

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Office of the Prosecutor:

Ms. Carla Del Ponte
Mr. Nicola Piacente

Counsel for the Accused:

N.N.

 

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"),

CONSIDERING the provisions of Article 21, paragraph 4(c), of the Statute of the International Tribunal ("Statute"), which guarantees the accused's right "to be tried without undue delay" and Article 20, paragraph 1, of the Statute, which enshrines the right to "a fair and expeditious" trial,

CONSIDERING that it is in the interests of justice and of a more expeditious and effectively managed trial to appoint a pre-trial Judge to be responsible for pre-trial matters on behalf of the Trial Chamber ("pre-trial Judge"),

PURSUANT TO Rule 65 ter of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal,

HEREBY DESIGNATES Judge Richard May to be the pre-trial Judge in this case, such appointment to take effect forthwith.

 

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

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Richard May
Presiding Judge

Dated this thirteenth day of April 2000
At The Hague
The Netherlands

[Seal of the Tribunal]