IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER
Before: Judge Richard May, Presiding
Judge Antonio Cassese
Judge Florence Ndepele Mwachande Mumba
Registrar: Mrs. Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh
Order of: 13 May 1998
PROSECUTOR
v.
MILAN KOVACEVIC
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SCHEDULING ORDER
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The Office of the Prosecutor:
Ms. Brenda Hollis
Ms. Ann Sutherland
Mr. Michael Keegan
Counsel for the Accused:
Mr. Dusan Vucicevic
Mr. Anthony DAmato
THE TRIAL CHAMBER,
NOTING the Prosecutors Motion For The Pre-Trial Admission Of
Evidence filed by the Office of the Prosecutor ("Prosecution") on 20 April 1998
and the Defence Reply filed on 7 May 1998,
NOTING ALSO the issues raised by the Defence in the Defence Reply To
The Indictment And to The Prosecutors Pre-Trial Brief filed on 7 May 1998
HAVING HEARD the parties on these and other matters on 11 and 12 May
1998, and
CONSIDERING the Scheduling Order issued by the Trial Chamber on 7 May
1998,
PURSUANT TO RULE 54 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the
International Tribunal,
HEREBY ORDERS as follows:
- subject to further order, the trial of this matter shall commence on Monday 6 July
1998 at 10 a.m.;
- the parties shall use their best endeavours to agree the items for pre-trial admission
into evidence, failing which either party may apply to the Trial Chamber for a hearing in
connection with any disputed items not less than twenty-eight days prior to the scheduled
commencement of the trial, that is, by Monday 8 June 1998;
- the Prosecution has until Tuesday 9 June 1998 to file a further brief expanding, if so
wished, its position on the definition of the legal elements of genocide, tailored to the
case before the Trial Chamber, together with copies of all authorities in one of the
working languages of the International Tribunal;
- the Defence has until Tuesday 9 June 1998 to file a brief on the definition of the legal
elements of genocide, tailored to the case before the Trial Chamber, together with copies
of all authorities in one of the working languages of the International Tribunal;
- not less than twenty-one days prior to the commencement of the trial, that is, by Monday
15 June 1998, the Prosecution shall indicate the number of witnesses it intends to call,
stating for each witness, to the extent possible, the count to which the witness will
testify, and submit a tentative estimate of the length of the examination-in-chief for
each witness;
- the Prosecution shall, at the same time, file the full statement of any expert witness
to be called by the Prosecution;
- the Defence shall disclose to the Prosecution as early as possible the full statement of
any expert witness it intends to call and shall file such statement not less than
twenty-one days prior to the date on which the expert is expected to testify;
- each party shall, within fourteen days of receipt of such statement, file a notice
indicating whether it accepts the expert witness statement or wishes to cross-examine the
expert. If the party accepts the statement of the expert witness, the statement may be
admitted into evidence by the Trial Chamber without calling the expert to testify in
person.
Done in English and French, the English text being authoritative.
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Richard May
Presiding Judge
Dated this thirteenth day of May 1998
At The Hague
The Netherlands
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