IN THE APPEALS CHAMBER

Before:
Judge David Hunt, Presiding
Judge Fouad Riad
Judge Wang Tieya
Judge Rafael Nieto-Navia
Judge Mohamed Bennouna

Registrar:
Mrs Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh

Order of:
12 October 1999

PROSECUTOR

v

Zejnil DELALIC, Zdravko MUCIC (aka “PAVO”), Hazim DELIC
and Esad LANDZO (aka “ZENGA”)

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ORDER APPOINTING A PRE-APPEAL JUDGE

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The Office of the Prosecutor:

Mr Upawansa Yapa
Mr Christopher Staker
Mr Norman Farrell
Mr Rodney Dixon

Counsel for the Defence:

Mr John Ackerman for Zejnil Delalic
Mr Tomislav Kuzmanovic and Mr Howard Morrison for Zdravko Mucic
Mr Salih Karabdic and Mr Thomas Moran for Hazim Delic
Ms Cynthia Sinatra and Mr Peter Murphy for Esad Landzo

 

THE APPEALS CHAMBER 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 ("International Tribunal");

BEING SEISED of the following notices of appeal which have been filed from the Judgement of Trial Chamber II in the trial of Zejnil Delalic, Zdravko Mucic, Hazim Delic and Esad Landžo, dated 16 November 1998:

  1. Hazim Delic’s Notice of Appeal, 24 November 1998
  2. Prosecution’s Notice of Appeal, 26 November 1998
  3. Zdravko Mucic’s Notice of Appeal, 27 November 1998
  4. Esad Landžo’s Notice of Appeal, 1 December 1998
  5. Zejnil Delalic’s Notice of Cross-Appeal, 1 December 1998;

NOTING the provisions of Article 21, paragraph 4(c), of the Statute of the International Tribunal ("Statute"), which guarantees the accused's right "to be tried without undue delay" and Article 20, paragraph 1, of the Statute, which enshrines the right to "a fair and expeditious" trial;

CONSIDERING that the accused’s right to a fair and expeditious trial includes the conduct of appellate proceedings pursuant to Article 25 of the Statute;

NOTING Rule 65ter of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal ("Rules") which provides that a "Trial Chamber may, at any time, designate from among its members a Judge responsible for the pre-trial proceedings" ("pre-trial Judge");

NOTING the powers of a pre-trial Judge as set out in Rule 65ter of the Rules;

CONSIDERING that Rule 65ter is a rule that governs proceedings in the Trial Chambers;

NOTING Rule 107 of the Rules which provides that the "rules of procedure and evidence that govern proceedings in the Trial Chambers shall apply mutatis mutandis to proceedings in the Appeals Chamber";

CONSIDERING that it is in the interests of justice and of a more expeditious and effectively managed appeal to appoint a Judge to be responsible on behalf of the Appeals Chamber for matters arising prior to the commencement of the hearing of the Appeal ("pre-appeal Judge");

PURSUANT TO Rules 65 ter and 107 of the Rules;

HEREBY DESIGNATES Judge David Hunt to be the pre-appeal Judge in this Appeal, such appointment to take effect forthwith;

AND ENTRUSTS the pre-appeal Judge with (i) the determination of all pre-appeal motions of a procedural nature under Rule 73 as it applies to the Appeals Chamber, with the power to refer to the Appeals Chamber any such motions as he considers appropriate, and (ii) the conduct of one or more Status Conferences prior to the hearing of the Appeal, in order to determine, in consultation with the Appeals Chamber, the procedures to be followed in that hearing.

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

David Hunt
Presiding Judge

Done this 12th day of October 1999,
At The Hague,
The Netherlands.

[Seal of the Tribunal]