Case: IT-95-11-PT

PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL

Before:
Judge Theodor Meron, President

Registrar:
Mr. Hans Holthuis

Order of:
7 June 2005

PROSECUTOR

v.

Milan MARTIC

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ORDER REASSIGNING A CASE TO A TRIAL CHAMBER

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The Office of the Prosecutor:

Ms Carla Del Ponte
Ms. Hildegard Uertz-Retzlaff

Counsel for the Accused:

Mr. Predrag Milovancevic
Mr. Vuk Sekulic

I, THEODOR MERON, 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 Milan Martic, IT-95-11;

NOTING the "Order Assigning a Case to a Trial Chamber," filed 30 May 2003, which assigned this case to Trial Chamber I;

NOTING the "Prosecution Motion for Joinder," filed in this case on 30 May 2005, which seeks to join this case, among others, with the Stanisic and Simatovic case, which is current pending before Trial Chamber III;

NOTING also the "Prosecution Motion for Joinder," filed 1 June 2005 in The Prosecutor v. Jovica Stanišic and Franko Simatovic, IT-03-69-PT, which similarly seeks to join the Martic case, among others, with the Stanisic and Simatovic case;

CONSIDERING that any Trial Chamber that is seised of the motions for joinder must also be seised of the cases related to the motions in order to dispose of them;

NOTING that Rule 19 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence authorizes the President of the Tribunal to coordinate the work of the Chambers;

NOTING that I have consulted the members of the Bureau;

CONSIDERING the trial management needs of the Tribunal;

HEREBY ASSIGN, effective immediately, the present case to Trial Chamber III.

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

Dated this seventh day of June 2005,
At The Hague,
The Netherlands.

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Judge Theodor Meron
President

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