Case No. IT-03-66-T

TRIAL CHAMBER II

Before:
Judge Kevin Parker, Presiding
Judge Krister Thelin
Judge Christine Van Den Wyngaert

Registrar:
Mr. Hans Holthuis

Order of:
11 April 2005

PROSECUTOR

v.

Fatmir LIMAJ
Haradin BALA
Isak MUSLIU

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ORDER UNDER RULE 15 BIS TO SIT IN THE ABSENCE OF A JUDGE

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The Office of the Prosecutor:

Mr. Alex Whiting
Mr. Julian Nicholls
Mr. Milbert Shin
Mr. Colin Black

Counsel for the Accused:

Mr. Michael Mansfield Q.C. and Mr. Karim A. A. Khan for Fatmir Limaj
Mr. Gregor Guy-Smith and Mr. Richard Harvey for Haradin Bala
Mr. Michael Topolski Q.C. and Mr. Steven Powles for Isak Musliu

 

THIS TRIAL CHAMBER II ("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 ("Tribunal"),

NOTING the provisions of Rule 15 bis (A) of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence ("Rules"), which provide as follows:

(A) If

(i) a Judge is, for illness or other urgent personal reasons, or for reasons of authorised Tribunal business, unable to continue sitting in a part-heard case for a period which is likely to be of short duration, and

(ii) the remaining Judges of the Chamber are satisfied that it is in the interest of justice to do so,

those remaining Judges of the Chamber may order that the hearing of the case continue in the absence of that Judge for a period of not more than five working days;

PURSUANT TO Rule 15 bis of the Rules,

HEREBY ORDERS that the Trial Chamber will sit in the absence of Judge Krister Thelin for today’s hearings.

 

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

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Judge Kevin Parker

Dated this eleventh day of April 2005
At The Hague,
The Netherlands

[Seal of the Tribunal]