PROSECUTOR v ISSA HASSAN SESAY & ORS - DISSENTING OPINION OF JUDGE THOMPSON ON DECISION ON APPLICATION FOR LEAVE TO APPEAL GBAO - APPLICATION TO WITHDRAW COUNSEL ( SCSL-04-15-T ) [2004] SCSL 172 (07 September 2004);


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IN THE APPEALS CHAMBER


Before:
Justice Emmanuel Ayoola, Presiding
Registrar:
Robin Vincent
Date:
7 September 2004
PROSECUTOR
Against
Sam Hinga Norman
Moinina Fofana
Allieu Kondewa
(Case No.SCSL-04-14-AR65)

FOFANA – ORDER APPOINTING RULE 65(E) JUDGE


Office of the Prosecutor:
Sam Hinga Norman
David Crane
Luc Côté
Desmond de Silva

Defence Counsel for Moinina Fofana:
Michiel Pestman
Arrow J. Bockarie
Victor Koppe
Phoebe Knowles


Defence Counsel for Allieu Kondewa:
Charles Margai

I, PRESIDING JUDGE OF THE APPEALS CHAMBER OF THE SPECIAL COURT FOR SIERRA LEONE (“Special Court”);


NOTING the Application for Leave to Appeal against Refusal of Bail by Moinina Fofana filed on 27 August 2004;


NOTING Rule 65(E) of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence (“Rules”) according to which “Any decision rendered under this Rule shall be subject to appeal in cases where leave is granted by a Single Judge of the Appeals Chamber, upon good cause being shown”;


PURSUANT to Rule 65(E) and Rule 27bis(A) of the Rules;


HEREBY APPOINT Justice Raja Fernando as Single Judge of the Appeals Chamber in the Fofana application for leave to appeal.


Done at Freetown this seventh day of September 2004


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Justice Ayoola
Presiding


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