THE APPEALS CHAMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL

Before:
President Claude Jorda
Judge Mohamed Bennouna
Judge Patricia Wald
Judge Fausto Pocar
Judge Liu Daqun

Registrar:
Mrs. Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh

Decision of:
21 November 2000

THE PROSECUTOR

v.

DUSKO TADIC


DECISION ON MOTION
FOR EXTENSION OF TIME-LIMIT


Counsel to Appellant:

Mr. Vladimir Domazet, for Milan Vujin

The Office of the Prosecutor:

Mr. Upawansa Yapa

Other parties:

Mr. Anthony Abell

 

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 (hereinafter "the International Tribunal"),

NOTING the Motion by interested party, Dusko Tadic, to vary, by extension, the time-limit prescribed for a response to the Appellant’s Brief filed in English on 14 November 2000 (hereinafter "the Motion"),

NOTING the Decision on the Application for leave to appeal rendered on 27 October 2000,

NOTING the Appellant’s Brief filed in English on 3 November 2000 (hereinafter "the Brief"),

PURSUANT to Rule 127 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence (hereinafter "the Rules") and the Practice Direction on Procedure for the Filing of Written Submissions in Appeal Proceedings before the International Tribunal (IT/155) (hereinafter "the Direction"),

CONSIDERING that, pursuant to Article 8 of the Direction, a Respondent’s Brief must be filed within ten days of the filing of the Brief, that is, in this case, by no later than 13 November 2000,

CONSIDERING that, in the Motion, Dusko Tadic contends inter alia that good cause within the meaning of Rule 127(B) of the Rules is: (i) he received the Brief on 6 November 2000 and (ii) the issues raised in the case are complex,

CONSIDERING that pursuant to Rule 127(B) of the Rules, the Appeals Chamber may enlarge any time prescribed by or under the Rules on good cause being shown by motion,

CONSIDERING that the grounds put forward constitute good cause within the meaning of Rule 127(B) of the Rules bearing in mind the specific circumstances of the case,

FOR THE FOREGOING REASONS,

ORDERS that the Respondent’s Brief be filed no later than Friday, 1 December 2000,

Done in French and English, the French version being authoritative.

 

Done this twenty-first day of November 2000
At The Hague
The Netherlands

(signed)
___________
Claude Jorda
President of the International Tribunal

[Seal of the Tribunal]