PROSECUTOR v ALEX TAMBA BRIMA & ORS - ORDER FOR EXPEDITED FILING (SCSL-04-16-PT ) [2004] SCSL 77 (30 April 2004);


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THE TRIAL CHAMBER


Before:
Judge Bankole Thompson, Presiding
Judge Benjamin Mutanga Itoe
Judge Pierre Boutet
Registrar:
Robin Vincent
Date:
30 April 2004
PROSECUTOR
Against
Alex Tamba Brima
Brima Bazzy Kamara
Santigie Borbor Kany
(Case No.SCSL-04-16-PT)

ORDER FOR EXPEDITED FILING


Office of the Prosecutor:
Defence Counsel for Alex Tamba Brima:
Luc Côté
Robert Petit
Terence Terry

Defence Counsel for Brima Bazzy Kamara:


Ken Fleming


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

THE TRIAL CHAMBER (“Trial Chamber”) of the Special Court of Sierra Leone (“Special Court”);


SEIZED OF the Prosecution’s Motion for Concurrent Hearing of Evidence Common to Cases SCSL-2004-15-PT and SCSL-2004-16-PT file on 30 April 2004 (“Motion”) by the Office of the Prosecution (“Prosecution”);


NOTING the request of the Prosecution for the Motion to be dealt with expeditiously;


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;


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


HEREBY ORDERS as follows:


  1. Any response to the Motion shall be filed on or before Wednesday, 5 May 2004 and such response, if any, shall be filed before 4.00pm.
  2. Any Prosecution reply shall be filed in a single and consolidated form on or before Friday, 7 May 2004 and such reply, if any, shall be filed before 4.00pm;
Done at Freetown this 30th day of April 2004

Judge Bankole Thompson
Judge Benjamin Mutanga Itoe
Judge Pierre Boutet
Presiding Judge,
Trial Chamber


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