PROSECUTOR v ISSA HASSAN SESAY & ORS - SCHEDULING ORDER (SCSL-04-15-T ) [2007] SCSL 86 (22 November 2007);


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THE TRIAL CHAMBER


Before:
Hon. Judge Benjamin Mutanga Itoe, Presiding Judge
Hon. Judge Bankole Thompson
Hon. Judge Pierre Boutet
Registrar:
Herman von Hebel
Date:
22nd of November 2007
PROSECUTOR
Against
ISSA HASSAN SESAY
MORRIS KALLON
AUGUSTINE GBAO
(Case No.SCSL-04-15-T)

SCHEDULING ORDER


Office of the Prosecutor:
Defence Counsel for Issa Hassan Sesay:
Peter Harrison
Reginald Fynn
Wayne Jordash
Sareta Ashraph

Defence Counsel for Morris Kallon:


Shekou Touray
Charles Taku
Kennedy Ogeto


Court Appointed Counsel for Augustine Gbao:
John Cammegh
Prudence Acirokop

HON. JUSTICE BENJAMIN MUTANGA ITOE, PRESIDING JUDGE, AND HON. JUSTICE PIERRE BOUTET of Trial Chamber I (“Trial Chamber”) of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (“Special Court”);

HAVING RECEIVED the Motion for Voluntary Withdrawal or Disqualification of Justice Bankole Thompson from the RUF Case, filed jointly by Counsel for the First Accused, Issa Hassan Sesay, and Court Appointed Counsel for the Third Accused, Augustine Gbao (“Defence”) on the 14th of November 2007 (“Motion”);

RECALLING the Chamber’s Order for Expedited Filing, filed on the 16th of November 2007;

NOTING the Statement in Support of the Sesay and Gbao Joint Motion for Voluntary Withdrawal or Disqualification of Justice Bankole Thompson from the RUF Case filed on the 14th day of November 2007, filed by Counsel for the Second Accused, Morris Kallon, on the 20th of November 2007;

HAVING RECEIVED the Response to the Motion filed by the Office of the Prosecutor (“Prosecution”) on the 20th of November 2007 and the Reply thereto, filed jointly by the Sesay and Gbao Defence on the 21st of November 2007;

RECALLING the statement made by the Presiding Judge, Hon. Justice Benjamin Mutanga Itoe, in on the 20th of November 2007 that the trial would be adjourned until a date to be announced in due course;[1]

RECALLING that pursuant to Rule 16(A) of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (“Rules”), Hon. Justice Benjamin Mutanga Itoe and Hon. Justice Pierre Boutet may sit in the absence of Hon. Justice Bankole Thompson for up to five days;
PURSUANT TO Rule 54 and Rule 65bis of the Rules;


IN THE INTERESTS OF JUSTICE, HEREBY ORDERS AS FOLLOWS:


  1. that the trial will resume on Thursday, the 22nd of November 2007 at 9:30 a.m. and continue on Friday, the 23rd of November, Monday, the 26th of November and Tuesday, the 27th of November 2007;
  2. that all examination-in-chief and cross-examination by the parties shall conclude by 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, the 27th of November 2007;
  3. that a Status Conference will be held on Tuesday, the 27th of November 2007 at 3:00 p.m.;
  4. that the trial session will be adjourned from Wednesday, the 28th of November 2007 until a Decision has been rendered on the Motion
Done at Freetown, Sierra Leone, this 22nd day of November 2007

Hon. Justice Benjamin Mutanga Itoe

Hon. Justice Pierre Boutet
Presiding Judge
Trial Chamber I


[Seal of the Special Court]

[1] Transcript, 20 November 2007, pp. 2-3.