PROSECUTOR v ISSA HASSAN SESAY & ORS - ORDER FOR EXPEDITED FILING ( SCSL-04-15-T ) [2007] SCSL 80 (25 October 2007);


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TRIAL CHAMBER I


Before:
Hon. Justice Benjamin Mutanga Itoe, Presiding Judge
Hon. Justice Bankole Thompson
Hon. Justice Pierre Boutet
Registrar:
Herman von Hebel
Date:
25th of October 2007
PROSECUTOR
Against
ISSA HASSAN SESAY
MORRIS KALLON
AUGUSTINE GBAO
(Case No. SCSL-04-15-T)

Public Document


ORDER FOR EXPEDITED FILING


Office of the Prosecutor:
Defence Counsel for Issa Hassan Sesay:
Peter Harrison
Reginald Flynn
Charles Hardaway
Wayne Jordash
Sareta Ashraph
Vincent Wagona
Defence Counsel for Morris Kallon:
Shekou Touray
Charles Taku
Ogetto Kennedy


Court Appointed Counsel for Augustine Gbao
John Cammegh

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

HAVING RECEIVED the Motion to Initiate Contempt Proceedings, filed publicly with confidential annexes, by Defence Counsel for the First Accused, Issa Hassan Sesay, (“Defence”) on the 24th of October 2007 (“Motion”);

NOTING that the Defence requests the Trial Chamber to initiate contempt proceedings against investigators attached to the Office of the Prosecutor (“Prosecution”) for intentional breach of the Decision on Sesay Defence Motion for Immediate Protective Measures for Victims and Witnesses and for Non-Public Disclosure rendered on the 30th of November 2006;

CONSIDERING that Article 17(4)(c) of the Statute of the Special Court provides that the Accused shall be entitled “to 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 a response and a reply;

PURSUANT TO Rules 7 and 54 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the Special Court;

HEREBY ORDERS as follows:

  1. Any Response to the Motion by the Prosecution shall be filed no later than Tuesday, the 30th of October 2007 at 4:00 p.m.; and
  2. Any Reply by the Defence shall be filed no later than Friday, the 2nd of November 2007 at 4:00 p.m.
Done at Freetown, Sierra Leone, this 25th day of October 2007

Hon. Justice Pierre Boutet
Hon. Justice Benjamin Mutanga Itoe
Hon. Justice Bankole Thompson

Presiding Judge
Trial Chamber I

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