THE PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL

Before: President Gabrielle Kirk McDonald

Registrar: Mrs. Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh

Order of: 16 March 1999

PROSECUTOR

v.

Zoran KUPRESKIC, Mirjan KUPRESKIC, Vlatko KUPRESKIC,
Drago JOSIPOVIC, Dragan PAPIC, Vladimir SANTIC, also known as "VLADO"

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ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT FOR THE ASSIGNMENT OF JUDGES TO THE APPEALS CHAMBER

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The Office of the Prosecutor:

Mr. Franck Terrier
Mr. Michael Blaxill

Counsel for the Accused:

Mr. Ranko Radovic, for Zoran Kupreskic
Ms. Jadranka Glumac, for Mirjan Kupreskic
Mr. Borislav Krajina, Mr. Zelimir Par, for Vlatko Kupreskic
Mr. Luko Susak, Ms. Goranka Herljevic, for Drago Josipovic
Mr. Petar Puliselic, Ms. Nika Pinter, for Dragan Papic
Mr. Petar Pavkovic, for Vladimir Santic

 

I, Gabrielle Kirk McDonald, 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 Decision on Request of the Defence Counsel for Dragan Papic for Leave to Appeal Against Oral Decision Dated 24th February 1999, filed by a Bench of the Appeals Chamber on 12 March 1999;

NOTING that President Gabrielle Kirk McDonald and Judge Mohamed Shahabuddeen are disqualified by virtue of Sub-rules 15(A) and (D)(i) respectively from sitting as members of the Appeals Chamber in this case;

HAVING CONSULTED the Judges of the Tribunal;

CONSIDERING Article 14(3) of the Statute and Sub-rule 27(C) of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal;

HEREBY ASSIGN Judge David Anthony Hunt and Judge Mohamed Bennouna to the Appeals Chamber for the determination of this appeal;

The Appeals Chamber in case IT-95-16-AR73.3, the Prosecutor v. Zoran Kupreskic et al. will then be composed as follows:

Judge Lal Chand Vohrah

Judge Wang Tieya

Judge Rafael Nieto-Navia

Judge David Anthony Hunt

Judge Mohamed Bennouna

 

Done in both English and French, the English text being authoritative.

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Gabrielle Kirk McDonald

President

Dated this sixteenth day of March 1999

At The Hague,

The Netherlands.

[Seal of the Tribunal]