Case No.: IT-98-33/1-PT
IN TRIAL CHAMBER II
Before:
Judge Wolfgang Schomburg, Presiding
Judge Carmel A. Agius
Judge O-Gon Kwon
Registrar:
Mr. Hans Holthuis
Order of:
28 November 2001
THE PROSECUTOR
v.
VIDOJE BLAGOJEVIC
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ORDER APPOINTING A PRE-TRIAL JUDGE
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Counsel for the Prosecutor:
Mr. Peter Mc Closkey
Counsel for the Defence:
Mr. Michael Karnavas
THIS TRIAL 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 ("the International Tribunal");
NOTING the "Prosecution’s Motion for Joinder" ("the Motion") filed by the Office of the Prosecutor on 11 September 2001;
NOTING the "Ordonnance du Président relative a la composition d’une chambre de première instance pour une affaire" filed on 23 November 2001 deciding that in the case of the Prosecutor v. Vidoje Blagojevic Trial Chamber II shall be composed of Judges Wolfgang Schomburg (Presiding), Florence Mumba and Carmel A. Agius;
NOTING further the "Ordonnance du Président portant affectation temporaire d’un juge d’une chambre de première instance à une autre" filed on 26 November 2001 deciding, inter alia, that in the case of the Prosecutor v. Vidoje Blagojevic and for the limited purposes of ruling on the Motion, Judge O-Gon Kwon shall be assigned to Trial Chamber II and that, therefore, the Trial Chamber shall be temporarily composed of Judges Wolfgang Schomburg (Presiding), Carmel A. Agius and O-Gon Kwon;
NOTING Rule 65ter of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal ("the Rules") which provides that the Presiding Judge of the Trial Chamber shall "designate from among its permanent members a Judge responsible for the pre-trial proceedings" ("the pre-trial Judge");
NOTING the powers of a pre-trial Judge as set out in Rule 65ter of the Rules;
PURSUANT TO Rule 65ter of the Rules;
HEREBY DESIGNATES Judge O-Gon Kwon to be temporarily pre-trial Judge in this case, such appointment to take effect forthwith;
Done in both English and French, the English text being authoritative.
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Wolfgang Schomburg
Presiding Judge
Done this 28th day of November 2001
At The Hague,
The Netherlands.
[Seal of the Tribunal]