IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER
Before: Judge Antonio Cassese, Presiding
Judge Richard May
Judge Florence Ndepele Mwachande Mumba
Registrar: Mrs. Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh
Decision of: 13 May 1998
PROSECUTOR
v.
MILE MRKSIC
MIROSLAV RADIC
VESELIN SLJIVANCANIN
SLAVKO DOKMANOVIC
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DECISION ON THE DEFENCE MOTION FOR PROTECTIVE MEASURES
FOR DEFENCE WITNESSES
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The Office of the Prosecutor:
Mr. Grant Niemann
Mr. Stefan Wäspi
Mr. Clint Williamson
Ms. Ann Sutherland
Counsel for the Accused:
Mr. Toma Fila and Mr. Vladimir Petrovic, for Slavko Dokmanovic
THE TRIAL CHAMBER
NOTING the oral Motion for the grant of protective measures for defence witnesses made by the Defence on 28 April 1998 pursuant to Rule 75 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal ("the Rules"), enabling two defence witnesses, referred to as Witness DA and Witness DB, to give their evidence in open session but using pseudonyms to protect their true identity,
NOTING that the Office of the Prosecutor ("Prosecution") has no objection to the protective measures sought,
HAVING GRANTED the Motion orally on 28 April 1998, to be followed by written order,
PURSUANT TO RULE 75 of the Rules
AND WITH THE AGREEMENT OF THE PARTIES
HEREBY GRANTS THE MOTION AND ORDERS as follows:
Done in English and French, the English text being authoritative.
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Antonio Cassese
Presiding Judge
Dated this thirteenth day of May 1998
At The Hague
The Netherlands
[Seal of the Tribunal]