IN THE APPEALS CHAMBER
Before:
Judge David Hunt, Presiding
Judge Fouad Riad
Judge Wang Tieya
Judge Rafael Nieto-Navia
Judge Mohamed Bennouna
Registrar:
Mrs Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh
Order of:
30 September 1999
PROSECUTOR
v
Zejnil DELALIC, Zdravko MUCIC (aka PAVO), Hazim DELIC
and Esad LANDZO (aka ZENGA)
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ORDER ON EMERGENCY MOTIONS BY HAZIM DELIC AND ZDRAVKO MUCIC FOR
EXTENSION OF TIME TO FILE REPLY TO
THE PROSECUTORS RESPONDENT BRIEF
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Office of the Prosecutor:
Mr Upawansa Yapa
Mr Christopher Staker
Mr Norman Farrell
Mr Rodney Dixon
Counsel for the Defence
Mr John Ackerman for Zejnil Delalic
Mr Tomislav Kuzmanovic and Mr Howard Morrison for Zdravko Mucic
Mr Salih Karabdic and Mr Tom Moran for Hazim Delic
Ms Cynthia Sinatra and Mr Peter Murphy for Esad Lando
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 ("International Tribunal");
BEING SEISED of Appellant, Hazim Delics Emergency Motion for Extension of Time to File Response to the Prosecutors Reply Brief of 17 September 1999, filed on 28 September 1999 and Appellant Zdravko Mucics Emergency Motion for Extension of time to File Reply to the Prosecutors Response Brief of 17 September 1999, filed on 29 September 1999 (Motions);
NOTING the Order on Motions to Extend Time for Respondent Briefs issued on 19 July 1999 ("Order of 19 July") in which the Appeals Chamber ordered that the Respondent Briefs be filed on or before Friday 17 September 1999 and the Briefs in Reply be filed on or before Friday 8 October 1999;
NOTING that a Respondents Brief was filed by the Office of the Prosecutor ("Prosecution") on 17 September 1999;
NOTING that, through no fault of their own, counsel for Appellants Hazim Delic, Zdravko Mucic and Esad Lando did not receive copies of the Respondent Brief filed by the Prosecution within a reasonable time of it being filed;
CONSIDERING that the intention of the Order of 19 July was to give the parties a reasonable period after the filing of the Respondent Briefs to prepare and file Briefs in Reply,
HEREBY ORDERS that the Briefs in Reply of all appellants, of the cross-appellant and (in its status as an appellant) of the Prosecution be filed on or before 12 noon on 25 October 1999.
Done in English and French, the English version being authoritative.
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David Hunt
Presiding Judge
Done this 30th day of September 1999
At The Hague,
The Netherlands.
[Seal of the Tribunal]