Before: Judge Richard May, Presiding

Judge Mohamed Bennouna

Judge Patrick Robinson

Registrar: Mrs. Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh

Order of: 26 January 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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ORDER APPOINTING A PRE-TRIAL JUDGE

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 The Office of the Prosecutor:

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

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

 

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"),

CONSIDERING the provisions of Article 21, paragraph 4(c), of the Statute of the International Tribunal ("Statute"), which guarantees the accused's right "to be tried without undue delay" and Article 20, paragraph 1, of the Statute, which enshrines the right to "a fair and expeditious" trial,

CONSIDERING that it is in the interests of justice and of a more expeditious and effectively managed trial to appoint a pre-trial Judge to be responsible for pre-trial matters on behalf of the Trial Chamber ("pre-trial Judge"),

PURSUANT TO Rule 65 ter of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal,

HEREBY DESIGNATES Judge Patrick Robinson to be the pre-trial Judge in this case, such appointment to take effect forthwith.

 

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

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Richard May

Presiding

Dated this twenty-sixth day of January 1999

At The Hague

The Netherlands

[Seal of the Tribunal]