Case No.: IT-02-54-T
Before:
Judge Patrick Robinson, Presiding
Judge Richard May
Judge O-Gon Kwon
Registrar:
Mr. Hans Holthuis
Order of:
23 March 2004
PROSECUTOR
v.
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC
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ORDER VARYING TIME LIMIT FOR PROSECUTION RESPONSE TO THE RULE 98 BIS MOTION
The Office of the Prosecutor
Ms. Carla Del Ponte
Mr. Geoffrey Nice
Mr. Dermot Groome
The Accused
Mr. Slobodan Milosevic
Amici Curiae
Mr. Steven Kay, QC
Prof. Timothy L.H. McCormack
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 "Prosecution’s Motion for a Variation of the Time Limit to File Its Response Pursuant to Rule 98 bis", filed 23 March 2004 ("Motion"), in which the Prosecution seeks permission to file its Response pursuant to Rule 98 bis with a half-day delay,
NOTING Rule 127 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal ("Rules"), which provides that a Trial Chamber may, on good cause being shown by motion, enlarge or reduce any time prescribed by or under the Rules,
NOTING that, in fact, the Prosecution has required an extension of a full day,
CONSIDERING that the Prosecution has shown good cause, being the complexity and length of the initial Motion and the Prosecution Response,
PURSUANT TO Rule 127 of the Rules
HEREBY GRANTS the Motion and ALLOWS the Prosecution to file its Response by the end of today.
Done in English and French, the English text being authoritative.
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O-Gon Kwon
Judge
Dated this twenty-third day of March 2004
At The Hague
The Netherlands
[Seal of the Tribunal]