Case No.: IT-97-25/1-PT

THE PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL

Before:
Judge Theodor Meron, President

Registrar:
Mr. Hans Holthuis

Order of:
1 September 2003

THE PROSECUTOR

v.

MITAR RASEVIC

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ORDER ASSIGNING A CASE TO A TRIAL CHAMBER

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Counsel for the Prosecution:

Mr. William Smith

Counsel for the Accused:

Mr. Branko Lukic

 

I, THEODOR MERON, 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 ("International Tribunal"),

NOTING the transfer of the accused Mitar Rasevic to the seat of the International Tribunal on 15 August 2003;

NOTING that the initial appearance was held before the Duty Judge on 18 August 2003;

CONSIDERING that Rule 62 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal provides, inter alia, that "[u]pon transfer of an accused to the seat of the Tribunal, the President shall forthwith assign the case to a Trial Chamber" and that "StChe accused shall be brought before that Trial Chamber or a permanent Judge thereof without delay, and shall be formally charged";

HEREBY ASSIGN, with immediate effect, case no. IT-97-25/1-PT, The Prosecutor v. Mitar Rasevic, to Trial Chamber II AND DETERMINE that, in this case, Trial Chamber II shall be composed as follows:

Judge Wolfgang Schomburg
Judge Florence Mumba
Judge Carmel Agius

 

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

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Theodor Meron
President

Dated this 1st day of September 2003,
At The Hague,
The Netherlands.

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