PROSECUTOR v ISSA HASSAN SESAY & ORS - ORDER FOR EXPEDITED FILING ( SCSL-04-15-T ) [2006] SCSL 19 (17 February 2006);


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TRIAL CHAMBER I


Before:
Hon. Justice Pierre Boutet, Presiding Judge
Hon. Justice Bankole Thompson
Hon. Justice Benjamin Mutanga Itoe
Interim Registrar:
Mr. Lovemore G. Munlo SC
Date:
17th February, 2006
PROSECUTOR
Against
ISSA HASSAN SESAY
MORRIS KALLON
AUGUSTINE GBAO
(Case No. SCSL-04-15-T)

Confidential Document


ORDER FOR EXPEDITED FILING


Office of the Prosecutor:
Defence Counsel for Issa Hassan Sesay:
Desmond de Silva QC
James Johnson
Peter Harrison
Wayne Jordash
Sareta Ashraph


Defence Counsel for Morris Kallon:
Shekou Touray
Charles Taku
Melron Nicol-Wilson


Defence Counsel for Augustine Gbao:
Andreas O’Shea
John Cammegh

TRIAL CHAMBER I (“Trial Chamber I”) 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;

MINDFUL of the Orders of this Trial Chamber concerning protective measures, including the “Decisions on the Prosecutor’s Motion for Immediate Protective Measures for Witnesses and Victims and for Non-Public Disclosure” for each individual accused in the RUF trial[1] and the “Decision on Prosecution Motion for Modification of Protective Measures for Witnesses filed on the 5th of July 2004”[2];

HAVING RECEIVED the “Urgent and Confidential Prosecution Motion to Request Protective Measures for Witnesses TF1-041 & TF1-369” on the 17th of February, 2006 (“Motion”), filed confidentially by the Office of the Prosecutor (“Prosecution”);

NOTING the “Prosecution Proposed Order of Appearance of Witnesses – Seventh Trial Session”, filed on the 10th February, 2006;

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 any remaining written submissions;[3]

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

HEREBY ORDERS as follows:

  1. Any Response by the Defence to the Motion shall be filed no later than Wednesday, the 15th of February, 2006, at 04:00pm;
  2. Any Reply by the Prosecution to the Defence Responses shall be filed, in a consolidated form, no later than Friday, the 17th of February, 2006, at 04:00pm;
Done at Freetown, Sierra Leone, this 17th day of February, 2006

Hon. Justice Benjamin Mutanga Itoe
Hon. Justice Pierre Boutet

Hon. Justice Bankole Thompson

Presiding Judge
Trial Chamber I

[Seal of the Special Court for Sierra Leone]

[1] Prosecutor v. Sesay, Case No. SCSL-03-05-PT, Decision on the Prosecutor's Motion for Immediate Protective Measures for Witnesses and Victims and for Non-public Disclosure, 23 May 2003, Prosecutor v. Kallon, Case No. SCSL-03-07-PT, Decision on the Prosecutor's Motion for Immediate Protective Measures for Witnesses and Victims and for Non-public Disclosure, 23 May 2003, and Prosecutor v. Gbao, Case No. SCSL-03-09-PT, Decision on the Prosecutor's Motion for Immediate Protective Measures for Witnesses and Victims and for Non-public Disclosure, 10 October 2003.
[2] Prosecutor v. Sesay, Kallon and Gbao, Case No. SCSL-04-15-T, Decision on Prosecution Motion for Modification of Protective Measures for Witnesses, 5 July 2004.
[3] See also Prosecutor against Norman, Fofana and Kondewa, Case No. SCSL-04-14-T, Order for Expedited Filing, 1 December 2005; see also Prosecutor against Sesay, Kallon and Gbao, Case No. SCSL-04-15-T, Order for Expedited Filing, 17 May 2004.