IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER
Before:
Judge Patrick Robinson, Presiding
Judge David Hunt
Judge Mohamed Bennouna
Registrar:
Mrs. Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh
Order of:
19 April 2000
PROSECUTOR
v.
BLAGOJE SIMIC
MILAN SIMIC
MIROSLAV TADIC
STEVAN TODOROVIC
SIMO ZARIC
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SCHEDULING ORDER
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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
International Committee for the Red Cross:
Mr. Christopher Greenwood, Q.C.
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 confidential "De Novo Motion to Sever the Trial on the Indictment of Stevan Todorovic from that of the Accused Milan Simic" filed by counsel for the accused, Stevan Todorovic, on 21 September 1999 ("Todorovic Motion for Separate Trial"),
BEING SEISED of a "Motion for an Order Requesting Assistance in Securing Documents and Witnesses from the International Committee of the Red Cross" filed by counsel for the accused, Stevan Todorovic, on 23 September 1999, seeking an order for judicial assistance in obtaining certain information from the International Committee of the Red ("ICRC") ("Todorovic Motion for Order to ICRC"),
BEING SEISED of a "Motion for the Provisional Release of Milan Simic" filed by counsel for the accused, Milan Simic, on 16 December 1999 ("Simic Motion for Provisional Release"),
BEING SEISED of a "Notice of Motion for Judicial Assistance" filed by counsel for the accused, Stevan Todorovic, on 24 November 1999, seeking an order for judicial assistance in obtaining certain information from the Stablization Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina ("SFOR") ("Todorovic request for assistance from SFOR"),
BEING SEISED also of a "Motion to Strike Finding that the November 24, 1999 Motion for Judicial Assistance was made on an ex parte basis and in the Alternative for an Order directing the Registry to serve the Motion upon SFOR", filed by counsel for the accused, Stevan Todorovic on 21 February 2000 ("Todorovic Motion for service")
NOTING that both the Todorovic Motion for Separate Trial and the Simic Motion for Provisional Release had been deferred pending the outcome of the contempt proceedings pursuant to Rule 77 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal ("Rules") initiated against the accused, Milan Simic, and his previous lead counsel, Mr. Branislav Avramovic,
NOTING the judgement of the Trial Chamber in those proceedings, pronounced on 29 March 2000,
NOTING the Scheduling Order of the Trial Chamber issued on 18 November 1999 as varied by the Decision of the Trial Chamber issued on 28 February 2000, which Scheduling Order stated that "a further Scheduling Order shall be issued in respect of the [Todorovic] Motion for Order to ICRC",
PURSUANT to Rule 54 of the Rules,
HEREBY ORDERS as follows:
Done in English and French, the English text being authoritative.
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Patrick Robinson
Presiding Judge
Dated this nineteenth day of April 2000
At The Hague
The Netherlands
[Seal of the Tribunal]