PROSECUTOR v ALEX TAMBA BRIMA & ORS - DECISION ON THE PROSECUTION MOTION FOR CONCURRENT HEARING OF EVIDENCE COMMON TO CASES SCSL-2004-15-PT AND SCSL-2004-16-PT ( SCSL-04-16-PT ) [2004] SCSL 89 (06 May 2004);


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IN THE APPEALS CHAMBER


Before:
Justice Renate Winter, Presiding
Justice George Gelaga King
Justice Emmanuel Ayoola
Justice Raja Fernando
Registrar:
Robin Vincent
Date:
11 May 2004
PROSECUTOR
Against
Issa Hassan Sesay
Morris Kallon
Augustine Gbao
(Case No.SCSL-04-15-PT)

SCHEDULING ORDER


Office of the Prosecutor:
Defence Counsel for Issa Hassan Sesay:
Desmond de Silva QC
Luc Côté
Timothy Clayson
Wayne Jordash

Defence Counsel for Morris Kallon:


Shekou Touray


Defence Counsel for Augustine Gbao:
Girish Thanki
Andreas O’Shea

THE APPEALS CHAMBER OF THE SPECIAL COURT FOR SIERRA LEONE;


NOTING that the following motion is pending before it:


Gbao, Defence Preliminary Motion on the invalidity of the agreement between the United Nations and the Government of Sierra Leone on the establishment of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, 6 November 2003 (“the Motion”);


NOTING Rule 117(A) according to which “A reference under Rule 72(E) or (F)...shall be heard expeditiously and may be determined entirely on the basis of written submissions”;


DECIDING that pursuant to Rule 117(A), the Chamber will not hear oral argument on the Motion;


HEREBY ORDERS that the Motion be scheduled for the rendering of a decision on Tuesday 25 May 2004, at 10:00.


Done at Freetown this eleventh day of May 2004


_______________
Justice Winter
Presiding


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