Case: IT-98-32-A

PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL

Before:
Judge Theodor Meron, President

Registrar:
Mr. Hans Holthuis

Order of:
26 September 2003

PROSECUTOR

v.

Mitar VASILJEVIC

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ORDER REPLACING A JUDGE IN A CASE BEFORE THE APPEALS CHAMBER

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Counsel for the Prosecutor:

Mr. Norman Farrell

Counsel for the Appellant:

Mr. Vladimir Domazet

I, THEODOR MERON, President 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"),

NOTING the appeal lodged by Mitar Vasiljevic on 30 December 2002 from the Judgment of Trial Chamber II, dated 29 November 2002, in the case of The Prosecutor v. Mitar Vasiljevic;

CONSIDERING the composition of the Appeals Chamber of the International Tribunal as set out in Document IT/215 of the International Tribunal, dated 13 June 2003;

CONSIDERING Articles 12(3) and 14(3) of the Statute of the International Tribunal;

CONSIDERING the need to expedite the hearing and resolution of the appeal;

PURSUANT TO Rule 27(C) of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal;

HEREBY ASSIGN, with immediate effect, Judge Wolfgang Schomburg to replace Judge Claude Jorda in the present case;

AND DETERMINE that the Appeals Chamber in case No. IT-98-32-A, The Prosecutor v. Mitar Vasiljevic, shall now be composed as follows:

Judge Theodor Meron

Judge Wolfgang Schomburg

Judge Mohamed Shahabuddeen

Judge Mehmet Güney

Judge Inés Mónica Weinberg de Roca

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

Dated this 26^th of September 2003,
At The Hague,
The Netherlands.

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Judge Theodor Meron
President

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