4 contributes to secure the effectiveness (effet utile) of a human rights treaty and the realization of its object and purpose. On the basis of this thesis, the positive obligations of protection on the part of the State9 are reinforced, with particular vigour, including the guarantee of non-repetition of the wrongful acts. 13. As pointed out in a Dissenting Opinion in a case before this Court almost half a decade ago, "it is one thing to act as an appeals tribunal or a court of review of the decisions of tribunals in the framework of domestic law, which the Inter-American Court cannot do. It is quite another thing, wholly distinct, to proceed, in the context of a concrete contentious case (in which the existence of victims of human rights violations has been established), to the determination of the compatibility or otherwise with the provisions of the American Convention of administrative acts and practices, national laws and decisions of national tribunals, which the Inter-American Court surely can and ought to do"10. 14. In the present Judgment in the case Las Palmeras, the Court has pointed out, as to the military as well as ordinary penal process, the obstructions and delays (paragraph 56) which have made the process last for more than ten years and not yet having resulted in a sentence on the part of the Juzgado 41 Penal of the Circuit of Bogotá. The Court has, thus, correctly established the violation of Articles 8(1) and 25(1) of the Convention, - but in our view this occurs also in relation to Article 1(1) of the Convention. 15. The considerations of the Court as to the co-relation between Articles 8(1) and 25(1) fit into the line of jurisprudential construction of the evolution of the due process of law as a whole (with emphasis on the right of access to justice and the realization of this latter). The evolutive character of the due process of law itself was pointed out by the Court in its 16th Advisory Opinion, on the Right to Information on Consular Assistance in the Framework of the Guarantees of the Due Process of Law (1999)11, - a pioneering Advisory Opinion, which has served as guidance and inspiration to the international case-law in statu nascendi on the matter. 9. Cf., on the matter, e.g., Jules Basdevant, "Règles générales du droit de la paix", 58 Recueil des Cours de l'Académie de Droit International de La Haye (1936) pp. 670-674; Eduardo Jiménez de Aréchaga, El Derecho Internacional Contemporáneo, Madrid, Ed. Tecnos, 1980, pp. 319-325, and cf. pp. 328-329; Ian Brownlie, System of the Law of Nations - State Responsibility - Part I, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1983, p. 43; Ian Brownlie, Principles of Public International Law, 4th. ed., Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1995 (reprint), p. 439; Paul Guggenheim, Traité de Droit International Public, tomo II, Genève, Georg, 1954, pp. 52 and 54; L.G. Loucaides, Essays on the Developing Law of Human Rights, Dordrecht, Nijhoff, 1995, pp. 146 and 149-152; Paul Reuter, "Principes de Droit international public", 103 Recueil des Cours de l'Académie de Droit International de La Haye (1961) pp. 592-594 and 598-603; C.W. Jenks, "Liability for Ultra Hazardous Activities in International Law", 117 Recueil des Cours de l'Académie de Droit International de La Haye (1966) pp. 105-110 and 176-196; Karl Zemanek, "La responsabilité des États pour faits internationalement illicites, ainsi que pour faits internationalement licites", in Responsabilité internationale (org. Prosper Weil), Paris, Pédone, 1987, pp. 36-38 and 44-46; Benedetto Conforti, Diritto Internazionale, 5th. ed., Napoli, Ed. Scientifica, 1997, pp. 360-363; J.A. Pastor Ridruejo, Curso de Derecho Internacional Público y Organizaciones Internacionales, 6th. ed., Madrid, Tecnos, 1996, pp. 571-573. 10. IACtHR, case Genie Lacayo versus Nicaragua, Resolution on Revision of Sentence, of 13.09.1997, Dissenting Opinion of Judge A.A. Cançado Trindade, Series C, n. 45, p. 48, par. 25 n. 21. 11. IACtHR, Advisory Opinion n. 16 (of 01.10.1999), Series A, n. 16, pp. 110-112, pars. 117-122, and cf. pp. 108-109, pars. 113-114.