Lasva Valley, Prosecutor v. Blaskic, Order Replacing a Judge in a Case Before the Appeals Chamber, IT-95-14 (ICTY Pres., Sep. 09, 2003)

Case: IT-95-14-A

THE PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL

Before:
Judge Theodor Meron, President

Registrar:
Mr. Hans Holthuis

Order of:
9 September 2003

THE PROSECUTOR

TIHOMIR BLASKIC

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ORDER REPLACING A JUDGE IN A CASE BEFORE THE APPEALS CHAMBER

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Counsel for the Prosecution:

Mr. Norman Farrell

Counsel for the Defence:

Mr. Anto Nobilo
Mr. Russell Hayman
Mr. Andrew Paley

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 appeal lodged by Tihomir Blaskic on 17 March 2000 against the Judgement rendered by Trial Chamber I on 3 March 2000;

NOTING the "Order of the Presiding Judge Replacing a Judge in a case Before the Appeals Chamber" issued on 6 August 2003;

CONSIDERING the composition of the Appeals Chamber of the International Tribunal as set out in Document IT/215 of the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ("Composition of the Appeals Chamber"), dated 13 June 2003;

CONSIDERING Rule 27(C) of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal ("Rules"), which 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 resolution of the appeal;

PURSUANT TO Articles 12(3) and 14(3) of the Statute of the International Tribunal and Rule 27 of the Rules;

HEREBY ASSIGN, with immediate effect, Judge Florence Mumba to replace me in the present case;

AND DETERMINE that the Appeals Chamber in case no. No. IT-95-14-A, The Prosecutor v. Tihomir Blaskic, shall now be composed as follows:

Judge Fausto Pocar

Judge Wolfgang Schomburg

Judge Florence Mumba

Judge Mehmet Güney

Judge Inés Mónica Weinberg de Roca

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

Done this 9^th day of September 2003,
At The Hague,
The Netherlands.

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Judge Theodor Meron
President

[Seal of the Tribunal]

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