IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER
Before:
Judge Richard May, Presiding
Judge Mohamed Bennouna
Judge Patrick Robinson
Registrar:
Mrs. Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh
Order of:
5 June 2000
PROSECUTOR
v.
DARIO KORDIC
MARIO CERKEZ
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ORDER FOR THE CONTINUATION OF THE PROCEEDINGS
IN THE ABSENCE OF A JUDGE
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The Office of the Prosecutor:
Mr. Geoffrey Nice
Mr. Kenneth Scott
Ms. Susan Somers
Mr. Patrick Lopez-Terres
Counsel for the Accused:
Mr. Mitko Naumovski and Mr. Stephen M. Sayers for Dario Kordic
Mr. Bozidar Kovacic and Mr. Goran Mikulicic, for Mario Cerkez
JUDGE RICHARD MAY and JUDGE PATRICK ROBINSON, members of Trial Chamber III 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 ("the International Tribunal"),
NOTING that the third member of the Trial Chamber, Judge Mohamed Bennouna, is required for urgent reasons to be absent for a period which is likely to be of short duration,
CONSIDERING that the remaining Judges of the Trial Chamber are satisfied that it is in the interests of justice to continue the hearing of the case in the absence of Judge Bennouna,
PURSUANT to Rule 15 bis of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal,
AND WITH THE AGREEMENT OF THE PARTIES,
HEREBY ORDER that the hearing of the case of Prosecutor v. Dario Kordic and Mario Cerkez, Case No. IT-95-14/2, continue in the absence of Judge Mohamed Bennouna for a further period of three days commencing Monday 5 June 2000.
Done in English and French, the English text being authoritative.
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Richard May
Presiding Judge, Trial Chamber III
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Patrick Robinson
Judge, Trial Chamber III
Dated this fifth day of June 2000
At The Hague
The Netherlands
[Seal of the Tribunal]