IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER
Before:
Judge Richard May, Presiding
Judge Patrick Robinson
Judge O-Gon Kwon
Registrar:
Mr. Hans Holthuis
Order of:
31 October 2002
PROSECUTOR
v.
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC
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ORDER UNDER RULE 15 bis TO SIT IN THE ABSENCE OF A JUDGE
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The Office of the Prosecutor
Ms. Carla Del Ponte
Ms. Hildegard Uertz-Retzlaff
Mr. Geoffrey Nice
Mr. Dermot Groome
The Accused
Slobodan Milosevic
Amici Curiae
Mr. Steven Kay, QC
Mr. Branislav Tapuskovic
Prof. Mischa Wladimiroff
THIS TRIAL 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"),
HAVING, in the absence of Judge May due to illness, sat in accordance with the provisions of Rule 15 bis (A) of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal ("Rules") on 30 October 2002,
NOTING the provisions of Rule 15 bis (A) of the Rules, which provide as follows:
"(A) If
(i) a Judge is, for illness or other urgent personal reasons, or for reasons of authorised Tribunal business, unable to continue sitting in a part-heard case for a period which is likely to be of short duration, and
(ii) the remaining Judges of the Chamber are satisfied that it is in the interests of justice to do so,
those remaining Judges of the Chamber may order that the hearing of the case continue in the absence of that Judge for a period of not more than three days."
PURSUANT TO RULE 15 bis of the Rules
HEREBY CONFIRMS the oral ruling of the Trial Chamber to sit in accordance with Rule 15 bis of the Rules on 30 October 2002.
Done in English and French, the English text being authoritative.
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Patrick Robinson
Judge
Dated this thirty-first day of October 2002
At The Hague
The Netherlands
[Seal of the Tribunal]