IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER
Before:
Judge Richard May, Presiding
Judge Antonio Cassese
Judge Florence Ndepele Mwachande Mumba
Registrar:
Mrs. Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh
Order of:
29 September 1999
PROSECUTOR
v.
MILAN KOVACEVIC
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ORDER CONCERNING VIDEO-TAPES
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The Office of the Prosecutor:
Ms. Brenda Hollis
Mr. Michael Keegan
Ms. Ann Sutherland
Counsel for the Deceased Accused:
Mr. Dusan Vucicevic
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"),
BEING SEISED OF a "Reply to correct inaccuracies and mis-statements in defence counsel letter dated 3 December 1998 re alleged failure to comply with Trial Chamber Orders regarding disclosed materials" filed by the Office of the Prosecutor ("Prosecution") on 15 December 1998 ("the Reply"), seeking the return of 11 video-tapes and requesting a hearing "on the issue of Defence non-compliance with the Trial Chamber order limiting further disclosure of materials provided to the Defence by the Prosecution",
NOTING its Order for Non-Disclosure issued on 3 July 1998, prohibiting the disclosure to the public of certain video-tapes provided to counsel for the deceased accused by the Prosecution ("the Order for Non-disclosure"),
NOTING its Order for Return of Video-tapes issued on 9 April 1999 requiring counsel for the deceased accused to return seven video-tapes identified therein within twenty-eight days of the date of the Order, together with its Orders for extension of time issued on 6 and 21 July 1999, extending the time period for return of the video-tapes until Tuesday 28 September 1999 ("the Orders for Return"),
NOTING the Notification of Receipt of Video-tapes filed by the Prosecution on 20 September 1999, and the response of counsel for the deceased accused filed on 22 September 1999,
CONSIDERING that it is acknowledged that six of the seven identified video-tapes have been returned, together with a seventh video-tape which was not specified in the Orders for Return,
CONSIDERING that there remains a dispute between the parties as to the fact of delivery to counsel for the deceased accused of the seventh video-tape subject to the Order for Non-disclosure and the Orders for Return,
CONSIDERING that this is not a matter capable of resolution by the Trial Chamber,
HEREBY
Done in English and French, the English text being authoritative.
___________________________
Richard May
Presiding Judge
Dated this twenty-ninth day of September 1999
At The Hague
The Netherlands
[Seal of the Tribunal]
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