PROSECUTOR v ISSA HASSAN SESAY & ORS - ORDER FOR EXPEDITED FILING ( SCSL-04-15-T ) [2008] SCSL 46 (03 June 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:
3rd of June 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 Motion to Request the Trial Chamber to Hear Evidence Concerning the Prosecution’s Witness Management Unit and its Payments to Witnesses, filed publicly by the Defence for the 1st Accused, Issa Hassan Sesay, (“Defence”) on the 30th of May 2008 (“Motion”);

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 Prosecution shall be filed no later than Thursday, the 5th of June 2008 at 4:00 p.m.; and
  2. Any Reply by the Defence shall be filed no later than Friday, the 6th of June 2008 at 4:00 p.m.
Done at Freetown, Sierra Leone, this 3rd day of June 2008

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

Presiding Judge
Trial Chamber I

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