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:
7 September 2000

PROSECUTOR

v.

ZORAN KUPREŠKIC
MIRJAN KUPREŠKIC
VLATKO KUPREŠKIC
DRAGO JOSIPOVIC
VLADIMIR SANTIC

_______________________________________________________

SCHEDULING ORDER FOR STATUS CONFERENCE

_______________________________________________________

Counsel for the Prosecutor:

Mr. Upawansa Yapa

Counsel for the Defence:

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

 

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 Rule 65bis 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 Kupreškic, Vlatko Kupreškic, Zoran Kupreškic and Vladimir Šantic currently are in detention at the United Nations Detention Unit in The Hague pending the hearing of the appeal;

ORDERS that a Status Conference pursuant to Rule 65bis of the Rules shall be held on Wednesday 13 September 2000 at 2:45 p.m.

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

 

________________________________
Judge Mohamed Bennouna
Presiding Judge

Dated this seventh day of September 2000
At The Hague,
The Netherlands.

[Seal of the Tribunal]