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w.
some workers who did not have labour union powers appeared before
Conciliation and Decision Board N° 5, which did not admit the complaints. Some
labour union leaders filed complaints with the Labour Courts, which requested the
leaders to withdraw such complaints. Both entities based their rejection of the
complaints on the argument that, in accordance with Law 25, they were not
competent;45
x.
the Full Supreme Court heard constitutional guarantee protection remedies
directed against the “order[s] not to do,” of Conciliation and Decision Board N° 5,
and ordered it to admit the complaints and to express the reasons why it did not
consider itself competent to hear them;46
y.
in accordance with the provisions of Law 25, most of the 270 alleged victims
filed both, reconsideration remedies with the authority that ordered the dismissal,
and appeal remedies with the immediate superior;47
and 24, 1990, by Vicente Archibold-Blake, in representation of Isaac Rodríguez; by Santander TristánDonoso et al; and by Basilio Chong-Gómez, in representation of Rolando Miller et al., against Law 25 of
December 14, 1990.
45
cfr. testimony of Manrique Mejía delivered before the Inter-American Court on January 26, 2000;
testimony of Carlos Lucas López-Tejada delivered before the Inter-American Court on January 27, 2000;
notarial certification of February 21, 1991, by the Twelfth Notary of the Circuit of the Republic of Panama,
and judgment of the Full Supreme Court of March 12, 1991, in connection with the constitutional
guarantee protection remedies filed by Marisina Ubillus-D., Jaime Camarena, Suldee R. de-Silva, Rolando
Jiménez, Cristian Eliécer Pérez, Giovani Prado-S., Santiago Alvarado, Antonia del-Valle, Natalio Murillo,
Teresa de-Sierra, Jorge A. Martínez, Daniel Jiménez, Sandra C. de-Romero, Alba Berrío, Pedro Atencio-M.,
Domingo De-Gracia, Andrés A. Alemán, Sergio Ochoa-Castro, Estebana Nash, Ricardo Rubén-Ríos, José
Inés Blanco-O., Rodolfo Vence-Reid, Luis Anaya, Manuel Corro, Samuel A. Beluche, Víctor Bock-E., Miguel
Bermúdez, Manuel J. Herrera-S., Daniel S. Trejos, Víctor M. Buenaño, Sonia de Smith, Jaime Batista,
Esteban Perea, Raúl González-R., Magaly de Herrera, Marcos Bracamaya, Félix Herrera, Zilka Lou, Luis
Arturo Sánchez, José Santamaría-S., Cayetano Cruz, Rubén D. Barraza, Rafael Tait-Yepes, Luis Alberto
Tuñón, Alexis Garibaldi-B., Luis A. Batista-J., Raúl Murrieta-R., Evelio Otero-Rodríguez, and Ricardo A.
Trujillo, against the Secretariat and the Co-ordinating organisation of the N° 5 Conciliation and Decision
Board
46
cfr. testimony of Carlos Lucas López-Tejada delivered before the Inter-American Court on
January 27, 2000; judgment of the Full Supreme Court of March 12, 1991, in connection with the
constitutional guarantee protection remedies filed by Marisina Ubillus-D., Jaime Camarena, Suldee R. deSilva, Rolando Jiménez, Cristian Eliécer Pérez, Giovani Prado-S., Santiago Alvarado, Antonia del-Valle,
Natalio Murillo, Teresa de-Sierra, Jorge A. Martínez, Daniel Jiménez, Sandra C. de-Romero, Alba Berrío,
Pedro Atencio-M., Domingo De-Gracia, Andrés A. Alemán, Sergio Ochoa-Castro, Estebana Nash, Ricardo
Rubén-Ríos, José Inés Blanco-O., Rodolfo Vence-Reid, Luis Anaya, Manuel Corro, Samuel A. Beluche,
Víctor Bock-E., Miguel Bermúdez, Manuel J. Herrera-S., Daniel S. Trejos, Víctor M. Buenaño, Sonia de
Smith, Jaime Batista, Esteban Perea, Raúl González-R., Magaly de Herrera, Marcos Bracamaya, Félix
Herrera, Zilka Lou, Luis Arturo Sánchez, José Santamaría-S., Cayetano Cruz, Rubén D. Barraza, Rafael
Tait-Yepes, Luis Alberto Tuñón, Alexis Garibaldi-B., Luis A. Batista-J., Raúl Murrieta-R., Evelio OteroRodríguez, and Ricardo A. Trujillo, against the Secretariat and the Co-ordinating organisation of the N° 5
Conciliation and Decision Board.
47
cfr. Law 25 of December 14, 1990, published in the Official Gazette of Panama N° 21.687 of
December 17, 1990; testimony of Manrique Mejía delivered before the Inter-American Court on January
26, 2000; testimony of Luis Antonio Batista-Juárez delivered before the Inter-American Court on January
26, 2000; testimony of Guillermo Endara-Galimany delivered before the Inter-American Court on January
27, 2000; testimony of Jorge de-la-Guardia delivered before the Inter-American Court on January 27,
2000; testimony of Marta de-León-de-Bermúdez delivered before the Inter-American Court on January
27, 2000; reconsideration remedy with an appeal in subsidy filed December 17, 1990, by the SITIRHE
Defence and Labour Secretary; note CSJ-SNG-354-94 of October 3, 1994, from the Vice President Justice
in charge of the Presidency of the Supreme Court of Panama, addressed to the Minister of Foreign Affairs
of Panama; reply to the full-jurisdiction action brought before the Third Section of the Supreme Court on
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