PROSECUTOR v ISSA HASSAN SESAY & ORS - ORDER FOR EXPEDITED FILING ( SCSL-04-15-T ) [2008] SCSL 35 (17 April 2008);


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TRIAL CHAMBER I


Before:
Hon. Justice Benjamin Mutanga Itoe, Presiding Judge
Hon. Justice Bankole Thompson
Hon. Justice Pierre Boutet
Registrar:
Herman von Hebel
Date:
17th of April 2008
PROSECUTOR
Against
ISSA HASSAN SESAY
MORRIS KALLON
AUGUSTINE GBAO
(Case No. SCSL-04-15-T)

Public Document


ORDER FOR EXPEDITED FILING


Office of the Prosecutor:
Defence Counsel for Issa Hassan Sesay:
Peter Harrison
Reginald Flynn
Charles Hardaway
Wayne Jordash
Sareta Ashraph
Vincent Wagona
Defence Counsel for Morris Kallon:
Charles Taku
Kennedy Ogeto
Lansana Dumbuya
Tanoo Mylvaganam


Court Appointed Counsel for Augustine Gbao
John Cammegh
Scott Martin

TRIAL CHAMBER I (“Trial Chamber I”) of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (“Special Court”) composed of Hon. Justice Benjamin Mutanga Itoe, Presiding Judge, Hon. Justice Bankole Thompson and Hon. Justice Pierre Boutet;

HAVING RECEIVED the Urgent Motion to Vary Protective Measures for Witnesses DMK-159, DMK-129, DMK-145, and DMK-146, filed confidentially by the Office of the Prosecutor (“Prosecution”) on the 15th of April 2008 (“Motion”);

NOTING that the Prosecution requests the Trial Chamber for an order that all protective measures currently granted to the witnesses referred to in its motion be rescinded;

NOTING further that the Prosecution request for an expedited filing on this matter;

CONSIDERING that Article 17(4)(c) of the Statute of the Special Court provides that the Accused shall be entitled “to be tried without undue delay”;

CONSIDERING that the fair and expeditious consideration of the Motion requires the imposition of an expedited timetable for the filing of a response and a reply;

PURSUANT TO Rules 7 and 54 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the Special Court;

HEREBY ORDERS as follows:

  1. Any Response to the Motion by the Defence shall be filed no later than Friday, the 18th of April 2008 at 4:00 p.m.; and
  2. Any Reply by the Prosecution shall be filed no later than Monday, the 21st of April 2008 at 4:00 p.m.
Done at Freetown, Sierra Leone, this 17th day of April 2008

Hon. Justice Pierre Boutet
Hon. Justice Benjamin Mutanga Itoe
Hon. Justice Bankole Thompson

Presiding Judge
Trial Chamber I

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