IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER
Before: Judge Richard May, Presiding
Judge Mohamed Bennouna
Judge Patrick Robinson
Registrar: Mrs. Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh
Order of: 17 March 1999
PROSECUTOR
v.
MIROSLAV KVOCKA
MILOJICA KOS
MLADO RADIC
ZORAN ZIGIC
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ORDER GRANTING REQUEST FOR ADMISSION
OF DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE
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The Office of the Prosecutor:
Ms. Brenda Hollis
Mr. Michael Keegan
Mr. Kapila Waidyaratne
Mr. James Cowles
Counsel for the Accused:
Mr. Krstan Simic, for Miroslav Kvocka
Mr. Zarko Nikolic, for Milojica Kos
Mr. Toma Fila, for Mlado Radic
Mr. Simo Tosic, for Zoran Zigic
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 ("International Tribunal"),
BEING SEISED of the "Prosecutors Request for admission of documentary evidence" filed by the Office of the Prosecutor ("Prosecution") on 11 January 1999 ("the Request"), seeking pre-trial admission of certain documents as listed in Annex I thereto,
NOTING the "Answer to the Prosecutors Request for admission of documentary evidence" filed on behalf of the accused, Miroslav Kvocka, on 26 February 1999 and the "Defence response to Prosecutors Request for admission of documentary evidence" filed on behalf of the three other co-accused on 1 March 1999, consenting to the items being admitted, subject to the reservation that, for one item, a transcript in one of the official languages of the International Tribunal has not been provided, and the right to challenge their authenticity, reliability, relevance and probative value,
HAVING HEARD the oral arguments of the parties at a hearing on 9 March 1999,
CONSIDERING that the issues of reliability, relevance and probative value are matters for the Trial Chamber to determine during the trial,
PURSUANT TO Rules 54 and 73 bis of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal ("the Rules"),
HEREBY ORDERS AS FOLLOWS:
Done in both English and French, the English text being authoritative.
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Richard May
Presiding
Dated this seventeenth day of March 1999
At The Hague
The Netherlands
[Seal of the Tribunal]