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1 Thursday, 8 November 2012
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4 --- Upon commencing at 9.00 a.m.
5 JUDGE DELVOIE: Good morning to everyone in and around the
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7 Mr. Registrar, could you call the case, please.
8 THE REGISTRAR: Good morning, Your Honours. This is case number
9 IT-04-75-T, the Prosecutor versus Goran Hadzic. Thank you.
10 JUDGE DELVOIE: Thank you. May we have the appearances starting
11 with the Prosecution, please.
12 MR. STRINGER: Good morning, Mr. President and Your Honours,
13 Douglas Stringer, Matthew Olmsted, and Thomas Laugel for the Prosecution.
14 JUDGE DELVOIE: For the Defence, please, Mr. Zivanovic.
15 MR. ZIVANOVIC: Good morning, Your Honours. For Defence of
16 Goran Hadzic, Zoran Zivanovic and Christopher Gosnell. Thank you.
17 JUDGE DELVOIE: Thank you very much. If there is nothing else,
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16 THE REGISTRAR: We're in open session, Your Honours. Thank you.
17 JUDGE DELVOIE: Thank you. Mr. Stringer.
18 MR. STRINGER: Thank you, Mr. President. Just looking ahead into
19 next week's proceedings, we've been informed that the Chamber will not be
20 sitting on Thursday and Friday of next week. Looking and doing the
21 addition in terms of the anticipated time necessary to complete the next
22 witness, who is GH-015, it appears quite likely that we would be unable
23 to complete that witness's testimony by the end of the court session
24 Tuesday afternoon next week. That witness has been granted -- the
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1 witness. And we're concerned that now that we're not sitting on Thursday
2 and Friday of next week, that witness would be required to essentially
3 stay here in The Hague on his own for four days, which I think would be
4 quite an inconvenience.
5 The Prosecution would propose that if it's possible, if the
6 arrangements can be made, if Your Honours would be willing, if we could
7 sit on Wednesday next week in order to make sure that we finish GH-015.
8 And then we're aware that each member of the Chamber is very busy working
9 on some other matters at the moment, and if we could sit on Wednesday,
10 then possibly not working Thursday and Friday would compensate for that
11 and Your Honours would be able to take on some of their other work during
12 that time. And so that's -- the proposal would be to substitute or to
13 pick up additional time on Wednesday to finish GH-015 so that we can send
14 him home.
15 JUDGE DELVOIE: For the record, it's perhaps good to state that
16 the non-sitting on Thursday and Friday next week is something that is
17 completely out of the hands of the Trial Chamber.
18 Now, then, I looked into the scheduling. There still is 021
19 before -- unless I'm wrong, before 015.
20 MR. STRINGER: Mr. President, 021, we informed the Chamber last
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22 JUDGE DELVOIE: Oh, yes. Okay, okay.
23 MR. STRINGER: He's been moved down to the 19th. So the only
24 thing after the -- the current witness is GH-016, and the only thing
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1 JUDGE DELVOIE: The next one is 015. Sorry about that. Indeed,
2 you told us that and we know that 021 will not come next week.
3 I noted that for this witness we will indeed go into the biggest
4 part of our Monday hearing. Even if I take into account that the OTP
5 used all its time for this witness and theoretically hasn't any time left
6 for redirect, what would you ask for as a matter of courtesy to the OTP,
7 Mr. Olmsted?
8 MR. OLMSTED: Well, at this early stage it's hard to predict, but
9 I --
10 JUDGE DELVOIE: Okay. You don't know for the moment.
11 MR. OLMSTED: Yes, thank you.
12 JUDGE DELVOIE: But you will --
13 MR. OLMSTED: Absolutely. I'll minimise it as much as possible.
14 JUDGE DELVOIE: Okay, thank you. So then we are somewhere at the
15 end of Monday's session. For 015 we have --
16 MR. STRINGER: Just to recap, Mr. President, the time estimated
17 for the examination-in-chief for GH-015 is 1.5 hours, with then 5 hours
18 for cross.
19 JUDGE DELVOIE: One and a half, yes. With five hours for cross?
20 Yeah, something -- yeah. A little bit less on my schedule, but that
21 doesn't change a lot. So indeed, probably we will -- it will be rather
22 tight to finish 015 within the Tuesday session, and we will arrange for
23 the Wednesday. We already checked with the registry. It is possible to
24 sit on Wednesday morning, and we sit on Wednesday morning the time needed
25 to end Witness 015's testimony.
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1 MR. STRINGER: Thank you very much, Your Honours. That is very
2 much appreciated.
3 JUDGE DELVOIE: Does that suit the Defence as well?
4 MR. ZIVANOVIC: Yes, Your Honour.
5 JUDGE DELVOIE: Thank you very much. If that's all, court is
6 adjourned.
7 --- Whereupon the hearing adjourned at 1.56 p.m.,
8 to be reconvened on Friday, the 9th day of
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