Case: IT-98-33/2-I

PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL

Before:
Judge Theodor Meron, President

Registrar:
Mr. Hans Holthuis

Order of:
23 March 2005

PROSECUTOR

v.

Vinko PANDUREVIC

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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

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,

NOTING the Indictment in The Prosecutor v Vinko Pandurevic, confirmed on 2 November 1998;

NOTING the Order Assigning a Case to a Trial Chamber, filed on 14 December 2004 ("the Assignment Order"), which assigned the Accused’s case to Trial Chamber III;

CONSIDERING that, contrary to the information contained in the Assignment Order, the Accused was not detained and transferred to the seat of the Tribunal in December 2004 as anticipated;

NOTING that the Registry has advised that the Accused will be detained and transferred to the seat of the Tribunal pursuant to Rule 62 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence on 23 March 2005;

NOTING that Rule 62 requires that the President of the Tribunal forthwith assign the case to a Trial Chamber;

CONSIDERING the trial management and case distribution needs of the Tribunal;

HEREBY REASSIGN, effective on the date upon which the Accused is transferred to the seat of the Tribunal, the present case to Trial Chamber II.

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

Dated this 23rd day of March 2005,
At The Hague,
The Netherlands.

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Judge Theodor Meron
President

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