THE PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL

Before: President Gabrielle Kirk McDonald

Registrar: Mrs. Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh

Order of: 2 July 1999

PROSECUTOR

v.

BLAGOJE SIMIC
MILAN SIMIC
MIROSLAV TADIC
STEVAN TODOROVIC
SIMO ZARIC

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ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT FOR THE ASSIGNMENT OF A JUDGE TO THE APPEALS CHAMBER

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The Office of the Prosecutor

Mr. Grant Niemann
Ms. Nancy Paterson
Mr. Christopher Staker

Defence Counsel

Mr. Branimir Avramovic, for Milan Simic
Mr. Igor Pantelic, for Miroslav Tadic
Mr. Deyan Ranko Brashich, for Stevan Todorovic
Mr. Borislav Pisarevic, for Simo Zaric

 

I, Gabrielle Kirk McDonald, President 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");

NOTING the "Accused Stevan Todorovic’s Motion for Leave to Appeal From a Certain Oral Order Dated March 4, 1999 and a Decision Dated March 25, 1999 Which Denied Motion for an Evidentiary Hearing on Abduction and Kidnapping and Thereafter for Leave to File a Motion to Repatriate the Accused to the Country of Refuge", filed by Counsel for Stevan Todorovic on 25 May 1999 ("Application for Leave to Appeal");

NOTING the "Decision on Application By Stevan Todorovic for Leave to Appeal Against the Oral Decision of Trial Chamber III of 4 March 1999", issued by a Bench of three Judges of the Appeals Chamber on 1 July 1999, granting the Application for Leave to Appeal;

CONSIDERING that Judge Lal Chand Vohrah has withdrawn from hearing this appeal pursuant to Sub-rule 15(A) of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal ("Rules");

HAVING CONSULTED the Judges of the Tribunal;

CONSIDERING Article 14(3) of the Statute of the International Tribunal and Sub-rule 27(C) of the Rules;

HEREBY DECIDE to assign Judge Antonio Cassese to the Appeals Chamber for the determination of this appeal;

The Appeals Chamber in case IT-95-9-AR73.2, The Prosecutor v. Blagoje Simic et al., will then be composed as follows:

President Gabrielle Kirk McDonald, Presiding

Vice-President Mohamed Shahabuddeen

Judge Antonio Cassese

Judge Wang Tieya

Judge Rafael Nieto-Navia

 

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

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Gabrielle Kirk McDonald
President

Dated this second day of July 1999
At The Hague,
The Netherlands.

[Seal of the Tribunal]