PROSECUTOR v SAM HINGA NORMAN & ORS - ORDER FOR EXPEDITED FILING (SCSL-04-14-T ) [2006] SCSL 117 (02 October 2006);


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TRIAL CHAMBER I


Before:
Hon. Justice Bankole Thompson, Presiding Judge
Hon. Justice Pierre Boutet
Hon. Justice Benjamin Mutanga Itoe
Registrar:
Mr. Lovemore G. Munlo, SC
Date:
2nd of October 2006
PROSECUTOR
Against
SAM HINGA NORMAN
MOININA FOFANA
ALLIEU KONDEWA
(Case No.SCSL-04-14-T)

Public Document


ORDER FOR EXPEDITED FILING


Office of the Prosecutor:
Court Appointed Counsel for Sam Hinga Norman:
Christopher Staker
James Johnson
Joseph Kamara
Kevin Tavener
Mohammed A. Bangura
Dr. Bu-Buakei Jabbi
John Wesley Hall, Jr.
Alusine Sani Sesay

Court Appointed Counsel for Moinina Fofana:


Steven Powles
Victor Koppe
Arrow Bockarie
Michiel Pestman


Court Appointed Counsel for Allieu Kondewa:
Charles Margai
Yada Williams
Ansu Lansana

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

SEIZED OF the “Kondewa Application for Leave to Call One Additional Witness”, filed by Court Appointed Counsel for the Third Accused (“Counsel for Kondewa”) on the 2nd of October 2006 (“Motion”),[1]wherein Counsel for Kondewa seek leave of The Chamber to add one witness to the witness list of the Third Accused;

NOTING that Counsel for Kondewa submit that they “will in the next few days file a reduced witness list consisting of a maximum of 15 witnesses and possible reducing it to 11 witnesses”;[2]

NOTING that the Defence case for the Third Accused is now scheduled to start on the 5th of October 2006[3] and will likely take even less time than three to four weeks originally indicated,[4] as further reduction in the number of witnesses to be called on behalf of the Third Accused is now reported to be undertaken by Counsel for Kondewa;

CONSIDERING that Article 17(4)(c) of the Statute of the Special Court provides that the Accused shall be “tried without undue delay”;

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;[5]

PURSUANT to Rule 7(C), 26bis, 54 and 73 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the Special Court;

HEREBY ORDERS as follows:

  1. Any Response to the Motion shall be filed no later than Wednesday, the 4th of October 2006, at 4:00 p.m.;
  2. Any Reply to the said Response shall be filed no later than Friday, the 6th of October 2006, at 1:00 p.m.;

Done in Freetown, Sierra Leone, this 2nd day of October 2006.


_____________________________
Hon. Justice Benjamin Mutanga Itoe
__________________________
Hon. Justice Bankole Thompson
Presiding Judge
Trial Chamber I
_______________________
Hon. Justice Pierre Boutet

[Seal of the Special Court for Sierra Leone]

[1] SCSL-04-14-T-705.
[2] Motion, para. 19.
[3] Oral Ruling of The Chamber delivered during the court proceeding of the 28th of September 2006, Transcript, p. 6.
[4] Transcript of the 12th of September 2006, p. 20.
[5] See, inter alia, SCSL-04-14-623, “Order for Expedited Filing”, the 16th of June 2006.