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Regional Report: Milosevic's Curious Legal Advisers
Of the many curiosities of the Slobodan Milosevic trial, one of the biggest is the operation of his legal team.
Officially, of course, Milosevic has no lawyers: having declared that he fails to recognise the court, he conducts his own defence.
Yet behind the scenes, a powerful group of Belgrade lawyers is working for him. Milosevic is in constant contact with these men by phone, email and fax.
Some would argue that they’re more of a personal propaganda team than legal counsel, dealing more with attacks on the tribunal and its staff and backers than the intricacies of the legal jousting played out in The Hague's Courtroom Number One.
These lawyers – who include Zdenko Tomanovic, Dragoslav Ognjanovic, Momo Raicevic, Branimir Gugl, Veselin Cerovic - first started working for Milosevic when he was arrested on April 2, 2001 and charged with financial crimes.
He never went on trial, though. Instead, to the furious opposition of the then-Yugoslav president Vojislav Kostunica, Milosevic was spirited away to face war crimes charges at The Hague.
Milosevic kept his legal team in place. They replaced his former lawyer, Toma Fila, enjoying the utmost trust of the Milosevic family.
Fila had previously represented the
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2004-02-22 THE HAGUE
Tribunal has safeguards against possible blocking of the legal process caused by the refusal of an accused to give his consent to the replacement of a judge in an ongoing trial
What will happen to the trial of Slobodan Milosevic after the resignation of the presiding judge, Richard May, due to health reasons, effective 31 May 2004?
Before Judge May's resignation was officially announced, Belgrade attorney Zdenko Tomanovic expressed his view in a statement given to the New York Times that " if a judge has to leave, then the accused has the right to ask for the proceedings to start all over again."
Tomanovic is and is not right. The accused may withhold his consent to the replacement of a judge, but he cannot block the entire legal process.
According to the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the Tribunal in The Hague, if one of the judges is unable to continue sitting in a part-heard case, the President of the Tribunal may assign another judge to the case and "order either a rehearing or a continuation of the proceedings from that point", but only "with the consent of the accused".
The accused Goran Jelisic invoked this rule in late 1998, when he withheld his consent to a replacement for Judge Fouad
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