THE PRESIDENT OF THE TRIBUNAL

Before:
President Gabrielle Kirk McDonald

Registrar:
Mrs. Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh

Order of:
30 March 1999

PROSECUTOR

v.

DUSKO TADIC


ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT AUTHORISING A CHAMBER TO CONDUCT A MATTER IN THE ABSENCE OF ONE OF ITS MEMBERS


The Office of the Prosecutor:

Mr. Upawansa Yapa
Ms. Brenda J. Hollis
Mr. Michael J. Keegan
Ms. Ann E. Sutherland

Other parties:

Mr. Milan Vujin

Counsel for the Appellant:

Mr. Anthony Abell
Mr. John Livingston

 

I, GABRIELLE KIRK McDONALD, 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 that the Appeals Chamber, composed of Judge Mohamed Shahabuddeen (Presiding), Judge Antonio Cassese, Judge Wang Tieya, Judge Rafael Nieto-Navia and Judge Florence Ndepele Mwachande Mumba, is seised of this case,

NOTING that, by its Scheduling Order of 24 March 1999, the Appeals Chamber has set aside today, 30 March 1999, to hear oral argument in relation to proceedings commenced pursuant to Rule 77 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal ("Rules"),

NOTING that Mr. Milan Vujin, a party to these proceedings, has today filed with the Appeals Chamber a Motion to Postpone the Hearing ("the Motion"), giving reasons for such request,

NOTING that, due to illness, Judge Wang Tieya is absent from the seat of the International Tribunal today,

CONSIDERING that Rule 15 (E) of the Rules vests in me the power to authorise a Chamber, in case of illness or an unfilled vacancy or any other exceptional circumstances, to conduct routine matters in the absence of one or more of its members,

HEREBY AUTHORISE the Appeals Chamber, composed of Judge Mohamed Shahabuddeen, Judge Antonio Cassese, Judge Rafael Nieto-Navia and Judge Florence Ndepele Mwachande Mumba to sit and to determine the Motion in the absence of Judge Wang Tieya.

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

 

_________________________

Gabrielle Kirk McDonald
President

Dated this thirtieth day of March 1999
At The Hague
The Netherlands

[Seal of the Tribunal]