IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER

Before: Judge Gabrielle Kirk McDonald, Presiding

Judge Ninian Stephen

Judge Lal C. Vohrah

Registrar: Mrs. Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh

Order of: 22 April 1997

PROSECUTOR

v.

DUSKO TADIC a/k/a"DULE"

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ORDER GRANTING THE WITHDRAWAL OF ASSIGNED COUNSEL

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The Office of the Prosecutor:

Mr. Grant Niemann
Mr. Alan Tieger

Ms. Brenda Hollis
Mr. Michael Keegan

Counsel for the Accused:

Mr. Michail Wladimiroff
Mr. Steven Kay

Ms. Sylvia de Bertodano

 

THE TRIAL CHAMBER,

NOTING that Mr. Michail Wladimiroff was assigned as counsel to the accused, Dusko Tadic, by the Registrar of the International Tribunal on the grounds of indigency on 1 May 1995,

NOTING the written notification of 11 April 1997 by the accused, Dusko Tadic, withdrawing his power of attorney from Mr. Michail Wladimiroff,

CONSIDERING that the trial of the accused has been completed and is awaiting issue of the Judgement and thus the withdrawal of counsel will not in any way delay the current proceedings,

PURSUANT TO Article 21 of the Statute of the International Tribunal, Rule 45 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence and Article 20(A) of the Directive on the Assignment of Defence Counsel,

HEREBY GRANTS the Request and DIRECTS the Registrar of the International Tribunal to withdraw the assignment of Mr. Michail Wladimiroff as counsel for the accused and to assign new counsel in his stead.

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

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Gabrielle Kirk McDonald
Presiding Judge

Dated this twenty-second day of April 1997
At The Hague
The Netherlands

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