THE VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL
Before: Vice-President Mohamed Shahabuddeen
Registrar: Mrs. Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh
Order of: 26 January 1999
PROSECUTOR
v.
ANTO FURUNDZIJA
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ORDER OF THE VICE-PRESIDENT FOR THE ASSIGNMENT
OF A JUDGE TO THE APPEALS CHAMBER
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The Office of the Prosecutor:
Ms. Brenda Hollis
Ms. Patricia Viseur-Sellers
Mr. Michael Blaxill
Counsel for the Accused:
Mr. Luka Misetic
I, Mohamed Shahabuddeen, Vice-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"), exercising the functions of the President pursuant to Rule 21 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal ("Rules"),
NOTING the Judgement of Trial Chamber II in the trial of Anto Furundzija, filed 10 December 1998 (Furundzija Judgement);
NOTING the Defendants Notice of Appeal Pursuant to Rule 108, filed 22 December 1998;
CONSIDERING that President Gabrielle Kirk McDonald has withdrawn from hearing this appeal pursuant to sub-Rule 15(A) of the Rules;
NOTING that Article 12(b) of the Statute of the International Tribunal ("Statute") provides that five judges shall serve on the Appeals Chamber;
CONSIDERING Article 14(3) of the Statute and Rule 27 of the Rules;
HAVING CONSULTED the Judges of the International Tribunal;
PURSUANT to Rule 21 of the Rules;
HEREBY DECIDE to assign Judge Patrick Robinson as a member of the Appeals Chamber for the purposes of the appeal from the Furundzija Judgement.
THEREFORE the Appeals Chamber in case IT-95-17/1-A, the Prosecutor v. Anto Furundzija, shall be composed as follows:
Judge Mohamed Shahabuddeen, Presiding
Judge Lal Chand Vohrah
Judge Wang Tieya
Judge Rafael Nieto-Navia
Judge Patrick Lipton Robinson
Done in both English and French, the English text being authoritative.
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Mohamed Shahabuddeen
Vice-President
Dated this twenty-sixth day of January 1999
At The Hague,
The Netherlands.