Case No.: IT-02-54-T

IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER

Before:
Judge Patrick Robinson, Presiding
Judge O-Gon Kwon
Judge Iain Bonomy

Registrar:
Mr. Hans Holthuis

Order of:
1 March 2005

PROSECUTOR

v.

SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC

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ORDER RECORDING USE OF TIME USED IN THE DEFENCE CASE

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Office of the Prosecutor:

Ms. Carla Del Ponte
Mr. Geoffrey Nice

The Accused:

Mr. Slobodan Milosevic

Court Assigned Counsel

Mr. Steven Kay
Ms. Gillian Higgins

Amici Curiae:

Prof. Timothy 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"),

Proprio motu

NOTING that, in the "Order Re-Scheduling and Setting the Time Available to Present the Defence Case", issued on 25 February 2004, the Trial Chamber noted that "the Accused should have the same time as the Prosecution had to present his (the AccusedS’sC) case in chief", and set out the following calculation of time available to him:

  1. The Prosecution spent approximately 360 hours presenting its case in chief, or approximately 90 sitting days, which will be the amount of time for the Accused to present his case in chief;
  2. However, to that is added two-thirds of that time for cross-examination of Defence witnesses and administrative matters, which amounts to approximately 240 hours, or 60 sitting days; and
  3. Therefore, the Accused shall have 150 sitting days in which to present his case, which shall be subject to adjustment depending on the time taken in cross-examination and administrative matters[.]

HAVING ORDERED, in the "Order Concerning the Time Available to Present the Defence Case", issued on 10 February 2005, that the parties were to file in writing, within seven days, any challenge they wished to make to the time recorded in that Order,

CONSIDERING that no written response has been received and that the seven days has expired,

CONSIDERING that it is desirable that the parties are regularly notified of the calculation of time utilised,

PURSUANT to Rules 54 of the Rules

HEREBY ORDERS that, as at the conclusion of court on 24 January 2005, the following time has been used:

 

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

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Judge Robinson
Presiding

Dated this first day of March 2005
At The Hague
The Netherlands

[Seal of the Tribunal]