Case No. IT-03-72-I

THE PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL

Before:
Judge Theodor Meron, President

Registrar:
Mr. Hans Holthuis

Order of:
22 January 2004

THE PROSECUTOR

v.

MILAN BABIC

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ORDER REPLACING A JUDGE IN A CASE BEFORE A TRIAL CHAMBER

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Counsel for the Prosecutor

Ms. Carla Del Ponte

Counsel for the Accused

Mr. Peter Michael Muller
Mr. Robert Rogelnest

 

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,

NOTING the composition of the Trial Chamber in this case, as set out in my order of 26 November 2003;

NOTING the appointment of Judge Joaquín Martín Canivell by the Secretary-General of the United Nations as an ad litem judge of the International Tribunal for the trial of this case, effective 20 January 2004;

CONSIDERING the need to expedite the proceedings in this case;

HEREBY ASSIGN, with immediate effect, Judge Joaquín Martín Canivell to replace Judge Liu Daqun in the present case;

AND DETERMINE that the Trial Chamber in Case No. IT-03-72-I, The Prosecutor v. Milan Babic, shall now be composed as follows:

Judge Amin El Mahdi;

Judge Alphons Orie;

Judge Joaquín Martín Canivell.

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

Dated this 22nd day of January 2004,
At The Hague,
The Netherlands.

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Judge Theodor Meron
President

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