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TRIAL CHAMBER II

 

 

Before:	Justice Richard Lussick, Presiding Judge Justice Teresa Doherty Justice Julia Sebutinde
Registrar:	Lovemore G. Munlo, SC
Date:	28 November 2006
PROSECUTOR	Against	Alex Tamba Brima Brima Bazzy Kamara Santigie Borbor Kanu (Case No.SCSL-04-16-T)

 

Decision on Urgent Prosecution Motion for

Relief to File a Final Brief not Exceeding 500 Pages

 

 

Office of the Prosecutor:		Defence Counsel for Alex Tamba Brima:
Karim Agha		Kojo Graham Glenna Thompson
		Defence Counsel for Brima Bazzy Kamara: Andrew Daniels Mohamed Pa-Momo Fofanah
		Defence Counsel for Santigie Borbor Kanu: Geert-Jan Alexander Knoops Carry Knoops A. E. Manly-Spain

trial chamber II (“Trial Chamber”) of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (“Special Court”), composed of Justice Richard Lussick, Presiding Judge, Justice Teresa Doherty and Justice Julia Sebutinde;

SEISED OF the Urgent Prosecution Motion for Relief to File a Final Brief Not Exceeding 500 Pages, filed on 27 November 2006 (“Motion”), wherein the Prosecution seeks relief to file a consolidated final brief that shall not exceed 500 pages;

NOTING the Brima Defence Response to Urgent Prosecution Motion for Relief to File a Final Brief Not Exceeding 500 Pages, filed on 27 November 2006, opposing the Motion;

NOTING the Kamara Defence Response to Urgent Prosecution Motion for Relief to File a Final Brief Not Exceeding 500 Pages, filed on 28 November 2006, also opposing the Motion;

NOTING Kanu Defence Response to Urgent Prosecution Motion for Relief to File a Final Brief Not Exceeding 500 Pages, filed on 28 November 2006, also opposing the Motion;

NOTING the Urgent Prosecution Reply to Defence Responses to Prosecution Motion for Relief to File a Final Brief Not Exceeding 500 Pages, filed on 28 November 2006;

RECALLING the Trial Chamber’s Order that, by agreement of the parties, the length of the consolidated final trial brief filed by the Prosecution shall not exceed 400 pages;[1]

ACCEPTING, however, that the Prosecution has miscalculated the number of pages required to adequately present its final trial brief;

FINDING that the Defence will not suffer any prejudice by the granting of the Motion, and that it is therefore in the interests of justice that the Motion be granted;  

PURSUANT to Rule 73(A) of the Rules of  Procedure and Evidence

HEREBY GRANTS the Motion

AND ORDERS that the Trial Chamber’s Order referred to above be varied so that the length of the consolidated final trial brief filed by the Prosecution shall not exceed 500 pages.

 

Done at Freetown, Sierra Leone, this 28^th day of November 2006.

Justice Teresa Doherty	Justice Richard Lussick Presiding Judge	Justice Julia Sebutinde

 

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