Case No.: IT-02-54-T
IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER
Before:
Judge Richard May, Presiding
Judge Patrick Robinson
Judge O-Gon Kwon
Registrar:
Mr. Hans Holthuis
Order of:
6 October 2003
PROSECUTOR
v.
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC
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ORDER OF FURTHER INSTRUCTION TO THE AMICI CURIAE
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The Office of the Prosecutor
Ms. Carla Del Ponte
Mr. Geoffrey Nice
Mr. Dermot Groome
The Accused
Slobodan Milosevic
Amici Curiae
Mr. Steven Kay, QC
Mr. Branislav Tapuskovic
Mr. Timothy L.H. McCormack
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"),
CONSIDERING its "Order Inviting Designation of Amicus Curiae" of 30 August 2001 and the designation by the Registrar of the International Tribunal on 6 September 2001 of three amici curiae, one of whom was dismissed by this Chamber’s "Decision Concerning an Amicus Curiae" on 10 October 2002 and subsequently replaced by the Trial Chamber’s appointment of Professor Timothy McCormack by Order on 22 November 2002,(1)
NOTING the Chamber’s Orders of 30 August 2001 and 11 January 2002,(2) in which the role of the amici curiae is relevantly set out as follows:
CONSIDERING that the Trial Chamber deems it desirable, and in the interests of securing a fair trial within a reasonable time, that the role of amici curiae be extended, having regard to:
AUTHORISES the amici curiae to receive such communications as the Accused may make to them and to act in any way to protect and further the interests of his Defence.
Done in English and French, the English text being authoritative.
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Richard May
Presiding
Dated this sixth day of October 2003
At The Hague
The Netherlands
[Seal of the Tribunal]