PROSECUTOR v ALEX TAMBA BRIMA & ORS - SCHEDULING ORDER DETAILING AMENDMENTS TO THE JUDICIAL CALENDAR (SCSL-04-16-T) [2005] SCSL 62 (03 May 2005);

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TRIAL CHAMBER II


Before:
Judge Teresa Doherty, Presiding Judge
Judge Richard Brunt Lussick
Judge Julia Sebutinde
Registrar:
Robin Vincent
Date:
3 May 2005
PROSECUTOR
Against
Alex Tamba Brima
Brima Bazzy Kamara
Santigie Borbor Kanu
(Case No.SCSL-04-16-T)

SCHEDULING ORDER DETAILING AMENDMENTS TO THE JUDICIAL CALENDAR


Office of the Prosecutor:
  
Defence Counsel for Alex Tamba Brima:
Luc Côté
  
Kevin Metzger
Glenna Thompson
Kojo Graham
   
Defence Counsel for Brima Bazzy Kamara:
Wilbert Harris
Pa. Momo Fofanah
   
Defence Counsel for Santigie Borbor Kanu:
Geert-Jan Knoops
Carry Knoops-Hamburger
Abibola E. Manly-Spain

TRIAL CHAMBER II (Trial Chamber) of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (Special Court) composed of Judge Teresa Doherty, presiding, Judge Richard Lussick and Judge Julia Sebutinde;


RECALLING the Trial Chamber’s Order for Commencement of Trial and Scheduling Order of 20 January 2005[1] (Scheduling Order) inter alia, scheduling the Trial Sessions for the Case of The Prosecutor v. Alex Tamba Brima, et al[2] ;


RECALLING that the Scheduling Order in relation to the duration of the Second Trial Session was subject to further order of the Trial Chamber;


NOW THEREFORE pursuant to Rule 54 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the Special Court, the Trial Chamber orders that the Scheduling Order be amended with regard to the judicial calendar for the case of The Prosecutor v. Alex Tamba Brima, et al[3] insofar as it refers to the remainder of 2005 as follows:


(i) The Second Trial Session for the Case will commence on Tuesday 5th April 2005 and end on Friday 27th May 2005.
(ii) The Third Trial Session for the Case will commence on Wednesday 8th June 2005 and end on Friday 5th August 2005.
(iii) The Trial Chamber will be in recess from Monday 8th August 2005 to Sunday 28th August 2005.
(iv) The Fourth Trial Session for the Case will commence on Monday 12th September 2005 and end on Friday 16 December 2005, subject to further order of the Trial Chamber.
(v) The Trial Chamber will be in recess from Monday 19th December 2005 to Sunday 8th January 2006, subject to further order of the Trial Chamber.
(vi) The amendments are deemed to have come into effect on 30th April 2005[4]

Done at Freetown this 3d day of May 2005

     
Judge Richard Lussick
Judge Teresa Doherty
Presiding Judge
Judge Julia Sebutinde

[Seal of the Special Court for Sierra Leone]

[1] Document No. SCSL-04-16-PT-116 (pages S963-S965).
[2] Case No.SCSL-2004-16-T.
[3] Ibidem.
[4] Commencement date of the Trial Chamber’s Order for Commencement of Trial and Scheduling Order of 20 January 2005.