Case No. IT-02-54-T

IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER

Before:
Judge Patrick Robinson, Presiding
Judge O-Gon Kwon
Judge Iain Bonomy

Registrar:
Mr. Hans Holthuis

Order:
15 September 2005

PROSECUTOR

v.

SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC

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FIRST ORDER DIRECTING PARTIES TO CLARIFY THEIR POSITIONS ON ADMISSION OF DEFENCE DOCUMENTS MARKED FOR IDENTIFICATION PENDING TRANSLATION AND FURTHER ORDER

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 ("Tribunal"),

Proprio motu,

NOTING that (1) the Defence has tendered as evidence and the Trial Chamber marked for identification untranslated documents and (2) the Trial Chamber has postponed its decisions on the admission of such documents pending their translation,

NOTING that, when an official Conference and Language Services Section ("CLSS") translation has been submitted for a document that has been marked for identification in accordance with the above practice, it is necessary for the Trial Chamber to issue an Order regarding the admission of that document and its translation in order for them to be admitted into evidence,

CONSIDERING, with respect to documents tendered by the Defence, that (1) where a document has been marked for identification pending translation and further Order and an official CLSS translation subsequently has been provided, the document and its official CLSS translation should be admitted into evidence on Order of the Trial Chamber; (2) the Defence is the appropriate party to identify each situation where this is the case; and (3) where only an English translation of a document has been provided, it is appropriate for the Defence to provide the B/C/S version and for that version to be admitted into evidence,

NOTING that a similar process has been ordered before in this case,¹

NOTING the Trial Chamber’s "Order Directing Parties to Clarify Their Positions on Admission of Translations of Exhibits Admitted During Prosecution Case and Decision on Prosecution Motion to Admit Translations of Documents Concerning Events in Racak", issued 30 June 2005, wherein the Trial Chamber made similar orders with respect to Prosecution documents and noted that, in due course, it would order the parties to make similar submissions with respect to currently pending translations of exhibits marked for identification during the Defence case,

PURSUANT to Rules 54 and 89 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the Tribunal,

HEREBY ORDERS as follows:

1. The Defence shall, no later than two weeks from the date of this Decision, file a written report ("Report")

   1. identifying each situation wherein a Defence document has been marked for identification pending translation and further Order ("document"), and an official CLSS translation ("translation") subsequently has been provided;

   2. identifying the date on which the translation was provided to the Registry, parties, and Trial Chamber; and

   3. identifying and attaching any B/C/S documents corresponding to English translations that already have been admitted ("B/C/S documents").

2. The Prosecution shall, no later than two weeks after the filing of the Report, file in writing any objections to the submissions in the Report and any objections to the documents and their translations and/or the B/C/S documents being admitted into evidence.

3. In the absence of any objections from the Prosecution, the documents and their translations and the B/C/S documents, as identified in the Report, shall be admitted into evidence and the Registry shall include them in the record of the proceedings.

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

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Judge Robinson
Presiding

Dated this fifteenth day of September 2005
At The Hague
The Netherlands