Order Assigning Judges To A Case Before The Appeals Chamber And Appointing A Pre-appeal Judge

Case No.: IT-01-47-A

THE PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL

Before:
Judge Fausto Pocar, President

Registrar:
Mr. Hans Holthuis

Order of:
26 April 2006

PROSECUTOR

ENVER HADZIHASANOVIC
&
AMIR KUBURA

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ORDER ASSIGNING JUDGES TO A CASE BEFORE THE APPEALS CHAMBER AND APPOINTING A PRE-APPEAL JUDGE

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The Office of the Prosecutor:

Ms. Carla Del Ponte

Counsel for the Accused:

Ms. Edina Residovic and Mr. Stéphane Bourgon for Enver Hadzihasanovic
Mr. Fahrudin Ibrisimovic and Mr. Rodney Dixon for Amir Kubura

I, FAUSTO POCAR, 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 Judgement rendered by Trial Chamber II on 15 March 2006;

NOTING the "Notice of Appeal on Behalf of Amir Kubura Filed Pursuant to Rule 108", filed on 13 April 2006 and the "Notice of Appeal From Judgement on Behalf of Enver Hadzihasanovic and Request for Leave to Exceed the Page Limit" filed on 18 April 2006;

NOTING the "Prosecution’s Notice of Appeal" filed on 18 April 2006;

CONSIDERING Articles 12(3), 14(3), and 25 of the Statute of the International Tribunal and Rule 108 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence;

CONSIDERING the composition of the Appeals Chamber of the International Tribunal as set out in document IT/242 issued on 17 November 2005;

CONSIDERING that pursuant to Article 14(2) of the Statute of the International Tribunal and Rules 65ter and 107 of the Rules of the International Tribunal, as Presiding Judge, I shall designate a Pre-Appeal Judge responsible for pre-appeal proceedings in this case;

HEREBY ASSIGN Judge Mohamed Shahabuddeen as Pre-Appeal Judge in this case; and

ORDER that the Bench in Prosecutor v. Enver Hadzihasanovic and Amir Kubura, Case No. IT-01-47-A, shall be composed as follows:

Judge Fausto Pocar, Presiding
Judge Mohamed Shahabuddeen, Pre-Appeal Judge
Judge Andrésia Vaz
Judge Theodor Meron
Judge Wolfgang Schomburg

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

Done this 26th day of April 2006,
At The Hague,
The Netherlands.

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Judge Fausto Pocar
President

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