Decision on Prosecution's Application Seeking Authorization to Exceed the Page Limits of the Pre-trial Brief

Case No: IT-01-47-PT

IN TRIAL CHAMBER II

Before:
Judge Florence Ndepele Mwachande Mumba, Pre-trial Judge

Registrar:
Mr Hans Holthuis

Order of:
2 October 2003

PROSECUTOR

ENVER HADZIHASANOVIC
AMIR KUBURA

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DECISION ON PROSECUTION’S APPLICATION SEEKING AUTHORIZATION TO EXCEED THE PAGE LIMITS OF THE PRE-TRIAL BRIEF

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The Office of the Prosecutor:

Mr Ekkehard Withopf
Mr. David Re

Counsel for the Accused:

Ms Edina Residovic and Mr Stéphane Bourgon for Enver Hadzihasanovic
Mr Fahrudin Ibrisimovic and Mr Rodney Dixon for Amir Kubura

I, Florence Ndepele Mwachande Mumba, the pre-trial judge in this case,

BEING SEIZED of the "Prosecution’s Application Seeking Authorization to Exceed the Page Limits of the Pre-Trial Brief", filed by the Prosecution on 1 October 2003 ("Application"), in which the Prosecution seeks to file the pre-trial brief pursuant to Rule 65ter(E)(i) exceeding the page limits as prescribed by the Practice Direction on the Length of Briefs and Motions,

CONSIDERING that the Prosecution shows exceptional circumstances necessitating such a filing,

PURSUANT TO Rule 54 and 65 ter of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence;

HEREBY order that the Prosecution is entitled to file the pre-trial brief which should not exceed 75 pages or 32.500 words, whichever is greater.

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

Done the second day of October 2003
At The Hague
The Netherlands

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Florence Ndepele Mwachande Mumba
Pre-trial Judge

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