PROSECUTOR v ISSA HASSAN SESAY & ORS - ORDER TO FILE OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTS IN SUPPORT OF THE JUDICIAL NOTICE MOTION ( SCSL-04-15-PT ) [2004] SCSL 81 (04 May 2004);


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THE TRIAL CHAMBER


Before:
Judge Bankole Thompson, Presiding Judge
Registrar:
Robin Vincent
Date:
4 May 2004
PROSECUTOR
Against
Issa Sesay
Morris Kallon
Augustine Gbao
(Case No.SCSL-04-15-PT)

ORDER TO FILE OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTS IN SUPPORT OF THE JUDICIAL NOTICE MOTION


Office of the Prosecutor:

Defence Counsel for Issa Hassan Sesay:
Luc Côté
Robert Petit

Timothy Clayson

Defence Counsel for Morris Kallon:


Shekou Toure


Defence Counsel for Augustine Gbao
Andreas O’Shea

I, JUDGE BANKOLE THOMPSON, Presiding Judge of the Trial Chamber of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (“Special Court”);

CONSIDERING the Prosecution’s Motion for Judicial Notice and Admission of Evidence (“Motion”) filed on 2 April 2004 pursuant to Rules 73, 89, 92bis and 94 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the Special Court (“Rules”);

CONSIDERING the Exhibit List and the copies of each documentary exhibit filed 26 April 2004 in compliance with the Order for the Prosecution to file Disclosure Materials in Preparation for the Commencement of Trials of 1 April 2004;

CONSIDERING that the majority of the documents referred to in Annex B of the Motion have already been filed as proposed exhibits;

HEREBY ORDERS that the Prosecution only files the following outstanding documents as referred to in Annex B of the Motion by Friday, 7 May 2004:

No. 12 Secretary General Report on the Situation in Freetown, 9 June 1998 (S/1998/486);

No. 16 UNOMSIL Fifth Report, 4 March 1999 (S/1999/237);

No. 21 Sierra Leone Humanitarian Situation Report, 17 May 1999;

No. 27 Report of the Panel of Experts Appointed Pursuant to the UN Security Council Resolution 1306, December 2000;

No. 29 UNHCR Report on Atrocities Committed Against the Sierra Leone Population, UNHCR Conakry Branch Office, 28 January 1999;

No. 70 UNAMSIL Report, 6 December 1999 (S/1999/1223);

No. 81 Record of Deaths 1 – 19 January 1999, Births and Deaths Registry, Freetown, Sierra Leone;

No. 87 Speech by the President of Sierra Leone His Excellency Alhaj Dr. Ahmed Tejan Kabbah at the ceremony marking the conclusion and disarmament and the destruction of Weapons, Lungi 18 January 2002.


Done at Freetown this 4th day of May 2004

Judge Bankole Thompson
Presiding Judge






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