Case No.: IT-01-45-I

THE PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL

Before:
Judge Kevin Parker, Acting President

Registrar:
Mr. Hans Holthuis

Order of:
9 December 2005

THE PROSECUTOR

v.

Ante GOTOVINA

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ORDER ASSIGNING A CASE TO A TRIAL CHAMBER

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Office of the Prosecutor

Ms. Carla Del Ponte

 

I, KEVIN PARKER, Acting 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 ("Tribunal"),

NOTING the Indictment in the Prosecutor v. Ante Gotovina, Case No. IT-01-45, filed on 31 May 2001;

NOTING the Amended Indictment in this case, filed on 19 February 2004;

NOTING that the Registry has advised that Ante Gotovina ("Accused") has been detained and will be transferred to the seat of the Tribunal pursuant to Rule 62 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence ("Rules") during the month of December 2005;

NOTING that Rule 62 requires the President of the Tribunal forthwith assign the case to a Trial Chamber upon the transfer of the Accused to the seat of the Tribunal;

NOTING that President Pocar is currently absent from the Tribunal on official Tribunal business;

NOTING that Rule 21 provides that the Vice-President shall exercise the functions of the President in case of the latter’s absence or inability to act;

CONSIDERING the trial management and case distribution needs of the Tribunal;

CONSIDERING the composition of the Trial Chamber of the Tribunal as set out in document IT/242 issued on 17 November 2005;

HEREBY ASSIGN, effective on the date upon which the Accused is transferred to the seat of the Tribunal, the present case to Trial Chamber II;

AND ORDER that the Trial Chamber shall, for the purposes of the present case, be composed as follows:

Judge Carmel Agius

Judge Kevin Parker

Judge Christine Van Den Wyngaert

 

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

Done this 9th day of December 2005,
At The Hague,
The Netherlands.

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Judge Kevin Parker
Acting President

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