Case No. IT-03-73-PT

IN TRIAL CHAMBER II

Before:
Judge Carmel Agius, Presiding
Judge Jean Claude Antonetti
Judge Kevin Parker

Registrar:
Mr. Hans Holthuis

Decision of:
31 March 2004

PROSECUTOR

v.

IVAN CERMAK
MLADEN MARKAC

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ORDER ASSIGNING A PRE-TRIAL JUDGE

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The Office of the Prosecutor:

Mr. Mark Ierace
Ms. Laurie Sartorio

Counsel for the Accused Ivan Cermak:

Mr. Cedo Prodanovic

Counsel for the Accused Mladen Markac:

Mr. Goran Mikulicic

I, Carmel Agius, Presiding Judge of Trial Chamber II 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"):

NOTING the "Order Assigning a Case to a Trial Chamber", filed by the President of the Tribunal on 9 March 2004, assigning the case of Prosecutor v Ivan Cermak and Mladen Markac to Trial Chamber II;

NOTING Rule 65 ter(A) of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the Tribunal ("Rules") which provides that the Presiding Judge of the Trial Chamber shall designate from among its members a Judge responsible for the pre-trial proceedings ("pre-trial Judge");

NOTING the "Order Appointing a Pre-trial Judge" in the case of Prosecutor v Ivan Cermak and Mladen Markac, filed on 12 March 2004, in which I appointed myself as pre-trial Judge;

CONSIDERING the need to ensure an equitable distribution, amongst the Judges of the Trial Chamber, of the duties performed by the pre-trial Judge;

PURSUANT TO Rule 65 ter (A) of the Rules;

HEREBY DESIGNATE Judge Kevin Parker as the pre-trial Judge in this case.

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

Dated this thirty-first day of March 2004,
At The Hague
The Netherlands

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Carmel Agius
Presiding Judge

[Seal of the Tribunal]