Case No. IT-97-25/1-PT

IN TRIAL CHAMBER II

Before:
Judge Wolfgang Schomburg, Presiding
Judge Florence Ndepele Mwachande Mumba
Judge Carmel A. Agius

Registrar:
Mr. Hans Holthuis

Order of:
3 September 2003

PROSECUTOR

v.

MITAR RASEVIC

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ORDER APPOINTING A PRE-TRIAL JUDGE

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The Office of the Prosecutor:

Mr. William Smith

Counsel for the Accused:

Mr. Branko Lukic

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 ("the International Tribunal");

NOTING the Order of the President of 1 September 2003 assigning this case of The Prosecutor v Mitar Rasevic to Trial Chamber II;

NOTING Rule 65ter of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal ("the Rules") which provides that the Presiding Judge of the Trial Chamber shall "designate from among its permanent members a Judge responsible for the pre-trial proceedings" ("the pre-trial Judge");

NOTING the powers of a pre-trial Judge as set out in Rule 65ter of the Rules;

PURSUANT TO Rule 65ter of the Rules;

HEREBY DESIGNATES Judge Wolfgang Schomburg as the pre-trial Judge in this case.

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

Dated this third day of September 2003
At The Hague
The Netherlands

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Judge Wolfgang Schomburg
Presiding

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