Case: IT-95-9-AR73.6 & IT-95-9-AR73.7

PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL

Before:
Judge Theodor Meron, President

Registrar:
Mr. Hans Holthuis

Order of:
23 May 2003

PROSECUTOR
v.
Blagoje SIMIC
Miroslav TADIC
Simo ZARIC

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ORDER REPLACING A JUDGE IN TWO CASES BEFORE THE APPEALS CHAMBER

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Counsel for the Prosecutor:

Mr. Gramsci di Fazio
Mr. Phillip Weiner
Mr. David Re

Counsel for the Defence:

Mr. Igor Pantelic and Mr. Srdjan Vukovic for Blagoje Simic
Mr. Novak Lukic and Mr. Dragan Krgovic for Miroslav Tadic
Mr. Borislav Pisarevic and Mr. Aleksandar Lazarevic for Simo Zaric

 

I, THEODOR MERON, 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 two orders entitled "Order Assigning Judges to a Case Before the Appeals Chamber" filed respectively on 7 May 2003 and 12 May 2003 in Case No. IT-95-9-AR73.6, Prosecutor v. Blagoje Simic, Miroslav Tadic and Simo Zaric and in Case No. IT-95-9-AR73.7, Prosecutor v. Blagoje Simic, Miroslav Tadic and Simo Zaric, (together "Interlocutory Appeals") defining the composition of the Appeals Chamber for the Interlocutory Appeals;

CONSIDERING the temporary absence of Judge Gunawardana;

CONSIDERING that Rule 27(C) of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal ("Rules") provides that "The President may at any time temporarily assign a member of a Trial Chamber or of the Appeals Chamber to another Chamber";

CONSIDERING the need to expedite the hearing and decision of the Interlocutory Appeals;

PURSUANT TO Rule 27(C) of the Rules of the International Tribunal;

HEREBY ASSIGN, with immediate effect, Judge Wolfgang Schomburg to replace Judge Asoka de Zoysa Gunawardana in the Interlocutory Appeals;

HEREBY ORDER that in the Case No. IT-95-9-AR73.6, The Prosecutor v. Blagoje Simic, Miroslav Tadic and Simo Zaric, and in Case No. IT-95-9-AR73.7, The Prosecutor v. Blagoje Simic, Miroslav Tadic and Simo Zaric, the Appeals Chamber shall be composed, with immediate effect, as follows:

Judge Theodor Meron
Judge Fausto Pocar
Judge Wolfgang Schomburg
Judge Mohamed Shahabuddeen
Judge Mehmet Güney

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

Dated this 23rd day of May 2003,
At The Hague,
The Netherlands.

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Theodor Meron
President

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