IN THE APPEALS CHAMBER
Before:
Judge Mohamed Shahabuddeen, Presiding
Judge Lal Chand Vohrah
Judge Wang Tieya
Judge Rafael Nieto-Navia
Judge Patrick Robinson
Registrar:
Mrs. Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh
Decision of:
17 May 1999
THE PROSECUTOR
v.
ANTO FURUNDZIJA
DECISION TO EXTEND BRIEFING SCHEDULE
The Office of the Prosecutor:
Mr. Upwansa Yapa
Ms. Brenda Hollis
Mrs. Patricia Viseur Sellers
Mr. Michael Blaxill
Counsel for the Appellant:
Mr. Luka S. Misetic
Mr. Sheldon Davidson
THE APPEALS 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"),
NOTING the Judgement in The Prosecutor v. Anto Furundzija, IT-95-17/1-T, rendered on 10 December 1998 ("Judgement");
NOTING the Defendants Post-Trial Application to the Bureau of the Tribunal for the Disqualification of Presiding Judge Mumba, Motion to Vacate Conviction and Sentence, and Motion for a New Trial, filed 3 February 1999 ("Post-Trial Application");
NOTING the Decision to Suspend Briefing Schedule, filed 5 March 1999;
NOTING the Bureaus Decision on the Post-Trial Application, filed 11 March 1999;
NOTING the Defendants Motion for Extension of Time to File Appellate Brief, filed 19 March 1999;
NOTING the Appeals Chambers Decision to Resume Briefing Schedule, filed 24 March 1999, which stipulated that the Appellants Brief should be filed by 21 May 1999;
NOTING the Appellants Unopposed Motion for Extension of Time in Which to File Defendants Appellant Brief, filed 10 May ("Motion");
CONSIDERING that pursuant to sub-Rule 127(B) of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence, the Appeals Chamber may extend the time for the filing of briefs on good cause being shown;
CONSIDERING that the difficulties that the Appellant has had in obtaining cases cited in the Judgement as well as the new information raised in the 7 May 1999 oral decision in The Prosecutor v. Zlatko Aleksovski together constitute good cause;
CONSIDERING also that the Prosecutor does not object to the Motion;
DECIDES to extend the briefing schedule in the appeal on the merits as follows:
Done in both English and French, the English text being authoritative.
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Mohamed Shahabuddeen
Presiding
Dated this seventeenth day of May 1999
At The Hague,
The Netherlands.
[Seal of the Tribunal]