Order of the President for the Assignment of a Judge to the Appeals Chamber

THE PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL

Before: President Gabrielle Kirk McDonald

Registrar: Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh

Order of: 29 April 1998

THE PROSECUTOR

v.

MILAN KOVACEVIC

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ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT FOR THE ASSIGNMENT OF A JUDGE
TO THE APPEALS CHAMBER

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Office of the Prosecutor:

Mr. Grant Niemann
Mr. Michael Keegan
Mrs. Hildegard Uertz-Retzlaff
Mr. Morten Bergsmo

Counsel for the accused:

Mr. Dusan Vucicevic
Mr. Anthony D’Amato

I, Gabrielle Kirk McDonald, President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia,

NOTING the Scheduling Order of the Appeals Chamber in response to the Prosecutor’s Request for Leave to File a Brief in Lieu of an Oral Hearing on the Appeal from the Trial Chamber’s Denial of Prosecutor’s Request for Leave to File an Amended Indictment, filed today;

HAVING CONSULTED the Judges of the Tribunal,

CONSIDERING Article 14(3) of the Statute and 27 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the Tribunal,

HEREBY DECIDE to assign Judge Fouad Abdel-Monem Riad as a substitute for Judge Wang Tieya to determine this appeal.

The Appeals Chamber in case IT-97-24-AR73, the Prosecutor v. Milan Kovacevic, will then be composed as follows:

Judge Gabrielle Kirk McDonald

Judge Mohamed Shahabuddeen

Judge Fouad Abdel-Monem Riad

Judge Rafael Nieto Navia

Judge Almiro Simoes Rodrigues

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Gabrielle Kirk McDonald

President

Dated this 29th day of April 1998

At The Hague

The Netherlands

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