PROSECUTOR v SAM HINGA NORMAN & ORS - ORDER TO PROSECUTION TO FILE MILITARY EXPERT'S CURRICULUM VITAE (SCSL-04-14-PT) [2005] SCSL 31 (24 February 2005);

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THE TRIAL CHAMBER


Before:
Hon. Justice Benjamin Mutanga Itoe, Presiding Justice
Hon. Justice Bankole Thompson
Hon. Justice Pierre Boutet
Registrar:
Robin Vincent
Date:
24th of February, 2005
PROSECUTOR
Against
SAM HINGA NORMAN
MOININA FOFANA
ALLIEU KONDEWA
(Case No.SCSL-04-14-PT)

ORDER TO PROSECUTION TO FILE MILITARY EXPERT’S CURRICULUM VITAE


Office of the Prosecutor:
  
Court Appointed Counsel for Sam Hinga Norman:
Luc Côté
James Johnson
  
Dr. Bu-Buakei Jabbi
John Wesley Hall, Jr.
Tim Owen, Q.C.

Court Appointed Counsel for Moinina Fofana:
   
Michiel Pestman
Arrow Bockarie
Victor Koppe
   
Court Appointed Counsel for Allieu Kondewa:
Charles Margai
Yadda Williams
Ansu Lansana

THE TRIAL CHAMBER (“Trial Chamber I”) of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (“Special Court”) composed of Hon. Justice Benjamin Mutanga Itoe, Presiding Justice, Hon. Justice Bankole Thompson, and Hon. Justice Pierre Boutet;


NOTING the Prosecution Request for Leave to Call Additional Witnesses and for Orders for Protective Measures Pursuant to Rules 69 and 73bis(E), filed on the 15th of February, 2005 (“Request”), whereby the Prosecution seek leave to add two additional witnesses to the Revised List of Prosecution Witnesses,[1] namely a Military Expert Witness Colonel Richard Irons and a Child Soldier Witness to give direct and expert testimony;


NOTING that in its Request the Prosecution failed to provide the Trial Chamber and the Defence with the curriculum vitae of the Military Expert Witness Colonel Richard Irons in order for the Defence to make an informed response and for the Trial Chamber to qualify the expert witness and to assess whether “good cause” is shown to add this expert witness to the Revised List of Prosecution Witnesses;[2]


CONSIDERING that a curriculum vitae should include the expert’s credentials, that qualify him as an expert and his specific field of expertise;


PURSUANT to Rule 54 of the Rules;


FOR THE FOREGOING REASONS, THE TRIAL CHAMBER

ORDERS the Prosecution to provide the Trial Chamber and the Defence by 4.00 p.m. on Monday, the 28th of February, 2005, with the curriculum vitae of the Military Expert Witness Colonel Richard Irons, that includes his credentials qualifying him as an expert and his specific field of expertise;

ORDERS that the Defence Response to the Prosecution Request be filed by 4.00 p.m. on Monday, the 7th of March, 2005.


Done in Freetown, Sierra Leone, this 24th day of February 2005



Hon. Justice Pierre Boutet
Hon. Justice Benjamin Mutanga Itoe
Presiding Judge,
Trial Chamber I
Hon. Justice Bankole Thompson

[Seal of the Special Court for Sierra Leone]

[1] Filed on the 3rd of February, 2005.
[2] See also Order for Compliance of Prosecution with Rule 94bis, dated the 16th of July, 2004, p. 3.