PROSECUTOR v SAM HINGA NORMAN & ORS - SCHEDULING ORDER (SCSL-04-14-PT ) [2004] SCSL 95 (11 May 2004);


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IN THE APPEALS CHAMBER


Before:
Justice Renate Winter, Presiding
Justice George Gelaga King
Justice Emmanuel Ayoola
Justice Geoffrey Robertson
Justice Raja Fernando
Registrar:
Robin Vincent
Date:
11 May 2004
PROSECUTOR
Against
Alex Tamba Brima
Brima Bazzy Kamara
Santigie Borbor Kanu
(Case No.SCSL-04-16-PT)

SCHEDULING ORDER


Office of the Prosecutor:
Defence Counsel for Alex Tamba Brima:
Desmond de Silva QC
Luc Côté
Terence Terry

Defence Counsel for Brima Bazzy Kamara:


Ken Fleming QC


Defence Counsel for Santigie Borbor Kanu:
Geert-Jan Alexander Knoops

THE APPEALS CHAMBER OF THE SPECIAL COURT FOR SIERRA LEONE;


NOTING that the following motion is pending before it in the Kanu case: Motion challenging the jurisdiction of the Special Court, raising serious issues relating to jurisdiction on various grounds and objections based on abuse of process, 20 October 2003 (“Motion”);


NOTING Rule 117(A) according to which “A reference under Rule 72(E) or (F)...shall be heard expeditiously and may be determined entirely on the basis of written submissions”;


DECIDING that pursuant to Rule 117(A), the Chamber will not hear oral argument on the Motion;


HEREBY ORDERS that the Motion be scheduled for the rendering of a decision on Tuesday 25 May 2004, at 10:00.


Done at Freetown this eleventh day of May 2004.


______________
Justice Winter
Presiding


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