IN THE APPEALS CHAMBER

Before:

Judge Mohamed Shahabuddeen, Presiding
Judge Antonio Cassese
Judge Wang Tieya
Judge Rafael Nieto-Navia
Judge Florence Ndepele Mwachande Mumba

Registrar:

Mrs. Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh

Order of:

26 April 1999

PROSECUTOR

v.

DUSKO TADIC

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ORDER FOR PROTECTIVE MEASURES IN THE MATTER OF
ALLEGATIONS AGAINST PRIOR COUNSEL

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The Office of the Prosecutor:

Mr. Upawansa Yapa
Ms. Brenda J. Hollis
Mr. Michael J. Keegan
Ms. Ann E. Sutherland

Other parties:

Mr. Milan Vujin

Counsel for the Appellant:

Mr. Anthony Abell
Mr. John Livingston

 

THIS 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 ("the International Tribunal"),

BEING SEISED of the confidential ex parte submission filed by the Victims and Witnesses Section on 26 April 1999 ("the Motion") seeking protective measures in respect of three of the witnesses to be called by the Appeals Chamber, as identified in the Motion,

HAVING HEARD the arguments of the Victims and Witnesses Section in respect of the witnesses in closed session on 26 April 1999,

CONSIDERING that the relief requested in the Motion is appropriate for the privacy and protection of the witnesses but is still consistent with the rights of Mr. Vujin, prior counsel in this matter,

PURSUANT TO RULES 75 and 79 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal,

HEREBY GRANTS THE MOTION in respect of the witnesses AND ORDERS as follows:

  1. the pseudonyms D, E and F shall be used whenever referring to the witnesses in proceedings before the International Tribunal and in discussions among parties to the proceedings;
  2. the testimony of witnesses D, E and F shall be heard in closed session; edited records and transcripts of the sessions shall be released to the public and to the media only after review by the Victims and Witnesses Section and redaction of any identifying information;
  3. the name, address, whereabouts and other identifying information concerning witnesses D, E and F shall be sealed and not included in any of the public records of the International Tribunal created after this date;
  4. documents of the International Tribunal created after this date and which identify witnesses D, E and F shall not be disclosed to the public or the media; and
  5. the public and the media shall not photograph, video-record or sketch the protected witnesses while the witnesses are in the precincts of the International Tribunal.

 

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

 

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Mohamed Shahabuddeen

Presiding

Dated this twenty-sixth day of April 1999

At The Hague

The Netherlands