TRIAL CHAMBER I

Public Document

ORDER FOR EXPEDITED FILING

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

SEIZED OF the “Norman Motion to Defer Further Evidence and Closing of His Case to September-December Trial Session”, filed by Court Appointed Counsel for the First Accused on the 7th of June, 2006 (“Motion”);

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

CONSIDERING that the seventh trial session in this case is scheduled to close on the 16th of June 2006;

CONSIDERING that the fair and expeditious consideration of the Motion requires the imposition of an expedited timetable for the filing of any remaining written submissions;[1]

NOTING the trial proceeding held on the 7th of June 2006;

PURSUANT to Rule 7(C), 26bis, 54 and 73 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the Special Court;

HEREBY ORDERS as follows:

1. Any Response by the Prosecution to the Motion shall be filed no later than Friday, the 9th of June 2006, at 1:00 p.m.;
2. Any Reply by Court Appointed Counsel for the First Accused shall be filed no later than Monday, the 12th of June 2006, at 1:00 p.m.;
   

Done in Freetown, Sierra Leone, this 7th day of June 2006.

[Seal of the Special Court for Sierra Leone]

[1] See, inter alia, Prosecutor against Norman, Fofana and Kondewa, Case No. SCSL-04-14-T, “Order for Expedited Filing”, the 7th of December 2005.