IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER

Before: Judge Richard May, Presiding

Judge Mohamed Bennouna

Judge Patrick Robinson

Registrar: Mrs. Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh

Decision of: 15 February 1999

 

PROSECUTOR

v.

Blagoje SIMIC
Milan SIMIC
Miroslav TADIC a/k/a Miro BRKO
Stevan TODOROVIC a/k/a Stiv a/k/a Stevo a/k/a MONSTRUM
Simo ZARIC a/k/a SOLAJA

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DECISION DENYING REQUEST FOR MODIFICATION

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The Office of the Prosecutor:

Ms. Anne-Birgitte Haslund
Ms. Nancy Paterson
Ms. Mary MacFadyen

Counsel for the Accused:

Mr. Branimir Avramovic, for Milan Simic
Mr. Igor Pantelic, for Miroslav Tadic
Mr. Deyan Ranko Brashich, for Stevan Todorovic
Mr. Borislav Pisarevic, for Simo Zaric

 

I, PATRICK ROBINSON, Judge 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"),

HAVING BEEN APPOINTED as pre-trial Judge in this matter by virtue of an Order of the Trial Chamber dated 26 January 1999,

BEING SEISED OF a "Defence Motion requesting modification to the Trial Chamber’s Order for Filing of Motions" filed on behalf of the accused, Miroslav Tadic, on 4 February 1999 ("the Motion"), in which counsel for the accused seeks modification of an Order of this Trial Chamber such that the time-limits for the filing of responses in this case would run from the date on which the last of the defence counsel receive the originating document,

NOTING the Order for the Filing of Motions issued by the Trial Chamber on 28 January 1999,

CONSIDERING Rule 126 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal ("the Rules") which provides: "Where the time prescribed by or under these Rules for the doing of any act is to run as from the occurrence of an event, that time shall begin to run as from the date on which notice of the occurrence of the event would have been received in the normal course of transmission by counsel for the accused . . .",

CONSIDERING that it is open to the parties to seek an extension of time pursuant to Rule 127 of the Rules in respect of any given filing and that such extension may be granted by the Chamber "on good cause being shown",

HEREBY REJECTS the Motion.

 

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

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Patrick Robinson

Pre-trial Judge

Dated this fifteenth day of February 1999

At The Hague

The Netherlands

[Seal of the Tribunal]