IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER
Before:
Judge Patrick Robinson, Presiding
Judge David Hunt
Judge Mohamed Bennouna
Registrar:
Mrs. Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh
Order of:
25 February 2000
PROSECUTOR
v.
Blagoje SIMIC
Milan SIMIC
Miroslav TADIC
Stevan TODOROVIC
Simo ZARIC
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ORDER DISPOSING OF DEFENCE MOTIONS TO PRECLUDE ICRC FROM FILING PROPOSED REDACTIONS AND DIRECTING THE REGISTRY TO DELIVER DOCUMENTS
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The Office of the Prosecutor:
Mr. Grant Niemann
Ms. Nancy Paterson
Ms. Suzanne Hayden
Counsel for the Accused:
Mr. Slobodan Zecevic, for Milan Simic
Mr. Igor Pantelic and Mr. Novak Lukic, for Miroslav Tadic
Mr. Deyan Ranko Brashich, for Stevan Todorovic
Mr. Borislav Pisarevic and Mr. Aleksander Lazarevic, for Simo
Zaric
The International Committee of the Red Cross:
Mr. Christopher Greenwood, QC
Mr. Gabor Rona
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"),
BEING SEISED of a "Notice of Motion directing the Registrar to forthwith deliver documents and things to Todorovic Defense" and a "Notice of Motion to preclude ICRC from filing designation of proposed redactions as directed by the Scheduling Order of November 18, 1999" both filed by counsel for the accused, Stevan Todorovic, on 31 January 2000 ("the Motions"),
NOTING its Scheduling Order of 18 November 1999 and the Order on the Motion of the International Committee of the Red Cross for Extension of Time issued on 21 December 1999, requiring the International Committee of the Red Cross ("ICRC"), inter alia, to notify the Trial Chamber by 21 January 2000 of any redactions it would wish to have made to certain material before that material is released to the accused, Stevan Todorovic, or into the public domain,
CONSIDERING that the ICRC duly submitted the relevant material to the Trial Chamber on 21 January 2000 and has therefore complied with its obligation to the Trial Chamber,
CONSIDERING that it is now for the Trial Chamber to consider the proposed redactions submitted to it in this connection by the ICRC and by the Office of the Prosecutor,
HEREBY REJECTS the Motions.
Done in English and French, the English text being authoritative.
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Patrick Robinson
Presiding
Dated this twenty-fifth day of February 2000
At The Hague
The Netherlands
[Seal of the Tribunal]