Judges in Slobodan Milosevic’s war crimes trial ordered a one-month postponement in proceedings today to give the former Yugoslav president’s court-assigned lawyers time to prepare a defence case.

Slobodan Milosevic’s court-imposed British lawyer told the UN war crimes tribunal today he will ask for a suspension of hearings until an appeals chamber has considered overturning his appointment at the request of the former Yugoslav president.

UN judges today allowed Slobodan Milosevic’s court-appointed British lawyers permission to ask an appeals court to remove them from the case and allow the former Yugoslav president to represent himself again.

Just two days into their attempts to defend Slobodan Milosevic, British lawyers appointed to represent the former Yugoslav leader said that witnesses are refusing to testify because the court will not let him present his own case.

Slobodan Milosevic’s court-appointed lawyers called the first witness in his defence case today, even though the former Yugoslav president refused to meet with them.

Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic is refusing to co-operate with two British lawyers appointed to defend him before the United Nations war crimes tribunal – even as they prepare to call the first witness in his defence case.

Two British lawyers are to act for former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic at the UN war crimes tribunal where doctors say his heart condition could become life threatening if he continues to represent himself.

Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic is fit to stand trial, but he may not be healthy enough to continue defending himself against charges of war crimes and genocide, the UN tribunal ruled.

Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic is fit to stand trial, but he may not be healthy enough to continue defending himself against charges of war crimes and genocide, the UN tribunal ruled today.

SLOBODAN Milosevic’s trial was in jeopardy yesterday after a medical report raised the possibility that he could be declared unfit to continue the trial and perhaps even freed.

Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic may be too ill for his war crimes and genocide trial to continue, an independent lawyer said today.

A British barrister has told the UN War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague that former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic will not receive a fair trial because of outside pressures on the tribunal.