10 Expert witnesses proposed by the State of Panama: Maruja Bravo-Dutary; and Feliciano Olmedo-Sanjur. 46. On April 24, 2000 the Labour Advice Centre of Peru, the Economic and Social Rights Centre, the Legal and Social Studies Centre, and the Colombian Law Professionals Commission submitted a brief in their capacity as amici curiae. 47. On June 6, 2000, pursuant to instructions from the President, the Secretariat informed the Commission and the State that they were to submit the final written arguments on the merits of the case no later than June 11 of the same year. On July 4 next, the State requested a 15-day extension. The next day the Secretariat informed the parties that the President had granted the extension requested up to July 28, 2000. 48. On July 17, 2000, Mr. Jacinto González-Rodríguez submitted a brief in his capacity as amicus curiae. 49. On July 28, 2000, the Commission submitted its final written arguments. 50. On August 1, 2000, Panama submitted its final written arguments. Although they were submitted out of schedule, the Court admitted them based on reasonableness and timeliness criteria, and in consideration of the fact that such delay did not harm the balance that the Tribunal must maintain between the protection of human rights and legal security, and procedural equitableness. Thus, on August 10, 2000, pursuant to instructions from the President, the Secretariat so informed the State. 51. In the same note of August 10, 2000, pursuant to instructions from the President and on the basis of powers conferred as per Article 44 of the Rules of Procedure, the Secretariat requested the State, as evidence to broaden the knowledge on the matter: the file of the proceedings of the action brought by the Cabinet Council against the workers dismissed pursuant to Law 25 of December 1990; the file of the proceedings of the Ninth Prosecutorial Agency and the Seventh Penal Circuit Court, Judicial Circuit of Panama, for the crime of "sedition" against the internal personality of the State, a crime defined in Chapter II, Section IX, Book II of the Panamanian Penal Code, which were conducted against Eduardo Herrera-Hassán and others; the minutes of the deliberations of the Cabinet Council for the month of December 1990, and those held about the discussion on Resolution N° 10 of January 23, 1991; Resolution N° 10 of January 23, 1991, of the Cabinet Council; the judicial files of the actions brought by Eduardo Gaslín-Caballero and others, Miguel Ángel Osorio and others, Yadira Delgado and others, Luis Anaya and others, Andrés Alemán and others, and Ivanor Alonso and others, which gave rise to the judgments of the Third Administrative Conflicts Section of the Supreme Court; the judicial file relative to the unconstitutionality action against Law 25 brought by Isaac Rodríguez, and the administrative measures taken by the Ministry of Public Works, the Renewable Natural Resources Institute, the Ministry of Education, the National Telecommunications Institute, the National Water and Sewerage Institute, and the Water Resources and Electric Power Institute, relative to the dismissal of each one of the 270 workers.