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ICTY: Karadzic: Chamber Forces Germany to Disclose Documents re its and UN’s Roles in Smuggling of Weapons into Srebrenica
2010-05-19, The Hague, The Netherlands. The Trial Chamber granted, in part, Karadzic’s motion to order Germany to produced documents related to participation of the U.S., German and UN personnel in smuggling of arms into Srebrenica between 1994 and 1995. Statement of Law. The Chamber held that in order to be successful, the motion for an [...]
Posted in ICTY Also tagged arms, Article 29, Bundesnachrichtendienst, Christoph von Bezold, disclosure, Embassy of Germany, Federal Intelligence Service, Flavia Lattanzi, Germany, Government of Germany, Hildegard Uertz-Retzlaff, hostage-taking, Howard Morrison, IT-95-5/18-T, Melville Baird, motion, necessary, O-Gon Kwon, Parlamentarische Kontrollkommission, peacekeepers, production of documents, Radovan Karadzic, ready identification, reasonable effort, relevance, Richard Harvey, Rule 54 bis, Rules, Rules of Procedure and Evidence, smuggling, specific intent, specificity, Srebrenica, Statute, Statute of the Tribunal, Third World Relief Agency, Tuzla, unduly onerous, UNPROFOR Comments closed
ICTY: Gotovina: Leave to Appeal the Reopening of the Trial Granted
2010-05-10, The Hague, The Netherlands. Judge Orie certified the Cermak and Markac Defence appeal of the Chamber’s confidential decision to reopen the OTP’s case in order to present new evidence. Statement of Law and Application (Rule 73 (B)). 1. the decision involved an issue that would significantly affect the fair and expeditious conduct of the proceedings or [...]
Posted in ICTY Also tagged Alphons Orie, Andrew Cayley, Ante Gotovina, Elizabeth Gwaunza, Gillian Higgins, Goran Mikulicic, Gregory Kehoe, IT-06-90-T, Ivan Cermak, Luka Misetic, Mladen Markac, Payam Akhavan, Rule 73 (B), Steven Kay, Tomislav Kuzmanovic, Uldis Kinis Comments closed
ICTY: Gotovina: Appeals Chamber Takes Word-Limits Seriously
2010-05-13, The Hague, The Netherlands. Judge Fausto Pocar of the Appeals Chamber granted, in part, Gotovina’s motion to strike the OTP’s Prosecution’s Response to Gotovina Defence Appeal Concerning Permanent Restraining Orders to the Republic of Croatia. The Appeals Chamber forced the OTP to refile their Response because the OTP inserted quotes from Gotovina’s arguments at [...]
Posted in ICTY Also tagged Andresia Vaz, Andrew Cayley, Ante Gotovina, appendice, Croatia, factual arguments, Fausto Pocar, Gillian Higgins, Goran Mikulicic, Gregory W. Kehoe, IT-06-90-AR73.5, Ivan Cermak, legal argument, Liu Daqun, Luka S. Misetic, Mehrnet Guney, Mladen Markac, motion to strike, non-argumentative material, para. (C)(6), Payam Akhavan, Practice Direction, quotation, quote, refile, Stephen Kay, Theodor Meron, Tomislav Kuzmanovic, word limit Comments closed
Croatia: Gotovina: Defence Files Criminal Complaint Against UN Observers
2010-04-26, Zagreb, Croatia. Luka Misetic, Ante Gotovina’s defence counsel, submitted a criminal complaint against former UNMO (United Nations Military Observers) staffers: Alexander Tchernetsky (Russia) , Viktor Tarusin (Russia; Chief Information Officer), and Peter Gage Williams (Britain; Colonel). The complaint alleges that Mr. Tchernetsky found military documents of Croatian Army related to the Operation Storm, a.k.a. [...]
Posted in BiH WCS, ICTY Also tagged Alexander Tchernetsky, Ante Gotovina, archives, Article 327 (1), artillery diaries, Chief Information Officer, Colonel, concealment, Criminal Code, criminal complaint, Croatia, Croatian Army, destruction, Gregory Kehoe, HV, Ivan Cermak, Luka Misetic, military documents, Mladen Markac, Municipal State Attorney Office, non-military targets, Operation Storm, Payam Akhavan, Peter Gage Williams, Stefan Waespi, United Nations Military Observers, UNMO, Viktor Tarusin, Zagreb Comments closed
ICTY: Karadzic: TC Reiterates Its Refusal to Hear Deronjic’s Evidence
2010-04-20, The Hague, The Netherlands. The Chamber refused to reconsider its earlier decision to admit Miroslav Deronjic’s evidence under Rule 92 quater. Statement of Law – Reconsideration. The power of the Chamber to reconsider its decision is not provided for in the Statute or the Rules, but is established by the ICTY’s jurisprudence. The party seeking [...]
Posted in ICTY Also tagged certification, evidence, fair trial, Flavia Lattanzi, Hildegard Uertz-Retzlaff, Howard Morrison, IT-95-5/18-T, Melville Baird, Miroslav Deronjic, O-Gon Kwon, probative value, Radovan Karadzic, reconsideration, reliability, Richard Harvey, Rule 73(B), Rule 89, Rule 92 quater Comments closed
ICTY: Karadzic: The First OTP Witness Testifies Today
2010-04-13, The Hague, The Netherlands. Ahmet Zulic, the first OTP witness in the Karadzic trial, will be testifying today about crimes committed in the detention camp near Sanski Most, where Mr. Zulic was detained. DW | BBC |
Posted in ICTY Also tagged Ahmet Zulic, detention camp, Radovan Karadzic, Richard Harvey, Sanski most, war crimes, witness Comments closed
ICTY: Karadzic: Decision Re Subpoena of an OTP Witness
2010-03-29, The Hague, The Netherlands. The decision arises from the Accused objection to the OTP’s request to admit into evidence, through Rule 92 bis, Ronald Eimers’s witness statements as well as transcripts of his testimony in the Dragomir Milosevic case. The Accused requested a subpoena to question Mr. Eimers as numerous requests to the Dutch government [...]
Posted in ICTY Also tagged Dragomir Milosevic, Hildegard Uertz-Retzlaff, Hrasnica, Radovan Karadzic, Richard Harvey, Ronald Eimers, Rule 54, Rule 92 bis, Sarajevo, shelling, sniping Comments closed
ICTY: Gotovina: Guidance on the Admissibility of Unattested Rule 92 ter Statements as Previous Inconsistent Statements
2010-03-30, The Hague, The Netherlands. The Guidance deals with the admission of those parts of Rule 92 ter statements that witnesses fail to attest to in the course of their in-court testimony, and that, as a result, constitute previous inconsistent statements. Previous inconsistent statement may be admitted into evidence for the following two purposes (TC [...]
Posted in ICTY Also tagged admission, Alphons Orie, Andrew Cayley, Ante Gotovina, Elizabeth Gwaunza, Gillian Higgins, Goran Mikulicic, Gregory Kehoe, IT-06-90-T, Ivan Cermak, leges specialis, lex generalis, Luka MiSetid, Mladen Markac, Payam Akhavan, previous inconsistent statement, prior inconsistent statement, Rule 89(C), Rule 92 bis, Rule 92 quater, Rule 92 ter, statement, Stefan Waespi, Steven Kay, Tomislav Kuzmanovic, Uldis Kinis Comments closed
ICTY: Karadzic: Second Defence Motion Re Disclosure Violations Denied