BEFORE THE APPEALS CHAMBER

Before:
Judge Mohamed Bennouna, Presiding
Judge Lal Chand Vohrah
Judge Rafael Nieto-Navia
Judge Patricia Wald
Judge Fausto Pocar

Registrar:
Mrs. Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh

Order of:
6 December 2000

 PROSECUTOR

v.

ZORAN KUPRESKIC
MIRJAN KUPRESKIC
VLATKO KUPRESKIC
DRAGO JOSIPOVIC
VLADIMIR SANTIC

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SCHEDULING ORDER FOR STATUS CONFERENCE

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Counsel for the Prosecutor:

Mr. Upawansa Yapa

Counsel for the Defence:

Mr. Ranko Radovic, Mr. Tomislav Pasaric for Zoran Kupreskic
Ms. Jadranka Slokovic-Glumac, Ms. Desanka Vranjican for Mirjan Kupreskic
Mr. Anthony Abell, Mr. John Livingston for Vlatko Kupreskic
Mr. Luko Susak, Ms. Goranka Herljevic for Drago Josipovic
Mr. Petar Pavkovic, Mr. Mirko Vrdoljak for Vladimir Santic

 

THE APPEALS 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 that the Trial Chamber Judgement in this case was rendered on 14 January 2000;

NOTING that Notices of Appeal were filed pursuant to Rule 108 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal ("the Rules”) by Vladimir Šantic on 24 January 2000, by Drago Josipovic on 26 January 2000, by Vlatko Kupreškic on 26 January 2000, by Zoran Kupreškic on 27 January 2000, by Mirjan Kupreškic on 28 January 2000 and by the Office of the Prosecutor on 31 January 2000;

NOTING that sub-Rule 65bis(B) of the Rules requires "the Appeals Chamber or an Appeals Chamber judge" to "convene a status conference, within one hundred and twenty days of the filing of a notice of appeal and thereafter within one hundred and twenty days after the last status conference, to allow any person in custody pending appeal the opportunity to raise issues in relation thereto, including the mental and physical condition of that person";

CONSIDERING that Drago Josipovic, Mirjan Kupreskic, Vlatko Kupreskic, Zoran Kupreskic and Vladimir Santic currently are in detention at the United Nations Detention Unit in The Hague pending the hearing of the appeal;

CONSIDERING FURTHER that the last Status Conference pursuant to sub-Rule 65bis(B) of the Rules was held on 13 September 2000;

PURSUANT TO sub-Rule 65bis(B) of the Rules;

HEREBY ORDERS that

  1. A Status Conference shall be held before Judge Mohamed Bennouna on Wednesday, 13 December 2000 at 14.00 hours for those Appellants and their counsel who wish to attend;
  2. All Appellants shall by Monday, 11 December 2000 file a notice indicating whether they intend to appear at the Status Conference.

 

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

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Judge Mohamed Bennouna
Presiding Judge

Dated this sixth day of December 2000
At The Hague,
The Netherlands.

[Seal of the Tribunal]