Case No.: IT-95-14-A

BEFORE THE PRE-APPEAL JUDGE

Before:
Judge Fausto Pocar, Pre-Appeal Judge

Registrar:
Mr. Hans Holthuis

Decision of:
24 November 2003

PROSECUTOR

v.

TIHOMIR BLASKIC

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DECISION ON APPELLANT’S APPLICATION FOR EXTENSION OF PAGE LIMITS FOR SUPPLEMENTARY BRIEF ON APPEAL

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Counsel for the Prosecutor:

Counsel for the Appellant:

Mr. Anto Nobilo
Mr. Russell Hayman
Mr. Andrew Paley

I, Fausto Pocar, Pre-Appeal Judge in this case,

NOTING the "Scheduling Order" issued by the Appeals Chamber on 31 October 2003;

BEING SEISED of the "Appellant’s Application for Extension of Page Limits for Supplemental Brief on Appeal" ("Appellant’s Application") filed on 21 November 2003, whereby the Appellant requests permission to file a supplemental appellate brief of 35 pages (10, 500 words) in length,

NOTING that the Prosecution has expressed orally that it does not oppose the Appellant’s Application;

CONSIDERING that the circumstances in the present case may require an oversized filing exceeding the page limit set out in provision (C) 5 of the Practice Direction on the Length of Briefs and Motions IT/184 Rev.1 ("Practice Direction IT/184 Rev.1");

PURSUANT to provision (C) 7 of Practice Direction IT/184 Rev.1;

HEREBY GRANT the Appellant’s Application.

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

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Fausto Pocar
Pre-Appeal Judge

Dated this twenty fourth day of November 2003
At The Hague,
The Netherlands.