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:
27 February 2006
PROSECUTOR
v.
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC
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PRELIMINARY ORDER ON ASSIGNED COUNSEL REQUEST FOR A SUBPŒNA AD TESTIFICANDUM TO BE ISSUED TO MR. WILLIAM CLINTON
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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
Amicus Curiae
Prof. Timothy McCormack
Government of the United States of America
Mr. Clifton Johnson
Mr. William Clinton
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 ("Tribunal"),
BEING SEIZED of the "Assigned Counsel Request for a Subpoena Ad Testificandum to be issued to Mr. William Clinton pursuant to Rule 54 and Attachments A and B", filed confidentially and ex parte on 22 February 2006 ("Request", "Attachment A", and "Attachment B" respectively);
CONSIDERING that the Accused has referred to this Request in open session;
CONSIDERING FURTHER that Assigned Counsel have indicated in the Request that they "have no objection to the lifting of confidentiality in respect of this matter, save for the correspondence in Attachment A which has been exchanged on confidential terms between the parties";1
CONSIDERING that it is appropriate to lift the confidentiality and ex parte status of the Request, so that the Prosecution may have the opportunity to respond;
PURSUANT TO Rule 54 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the Tribunal ("Rules");
HEREBY ORDERS AS FOLLOWS:
Done in English and French, the English text being authoritative.
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Patrick Robinson
Presiding
Dated this twenty-seventh day of February 2006
At The Hague
The Netherlands
[Seal of the Tribunal]