IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER
Before: Judge Florence Ndepele Mumba, Presiding
Judge Antonio Cassese
Judge Richard May
Registrar: Mrs. Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh
Order of: 10 December 1998
PROSECUTOR
v.
ANTO FURUNDZIJA
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ORDER
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The Office of the Prosecutor:
Ms. Brenda Hollis
Ms. Patricia Viseur Sellers
Mr. Micheal Blaxill
Counsel for the Accused:
Mr. Luka Misetic
Mr. Sheldon Davidson
THIS TRIAL CHAMBER of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia ("the Tribunal");
BEING SEISED of the request of Trial Chamber I found in the "Decision on the Motion of the Accused for Access to Non-Public Materials in the Lasva Valley and Related Cases" ("the Decision"), filed on 12 November 1998 in the case of Prosecutor v. Kordic et al.(IT-95-14/2-PT);
CONSIDERING the orders and decisions of this Chamber granting protective measures to witnesses in this case;
CONSIDERING THAT witnesses, once they have taken the Solemn Declaration pursuant to Rule 90 (B) of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence, become witnesses of truth before the Tribunal and are not strictly witnesses for either Party;
CONSIDERING the Trial Chambers ongoing duty to protect its witnesses;
CONSIDERING that the Trial Chamber needs further information regarding its witnesses before it is able to respond to the request found in the Decision;
PURSUANT TO Rule 54 and Rule 75 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the Tribunal
HEREBY DECIDES
Done in both English and French, the English text being authoritative.
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Florence Ndepele Mwachande Mumba
Presiding Judge
Dated this tenth day of December 1998
At The Hague,
The Netherlands.
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