4 IV PROCEEDING BEFORE THE COURT 13. The Commission filed the application before the Court on December 4, 2001. 14. Pursuant to Article 22 of the Rules of Procedure, the Commission designated Hélio Bicudo and Santiago Cantón as Delegates and Ignacio Álvarez and Ariel Dulitzky as legal advisers. Also, in accordance with Article 33 of the Rules of Procedure, the Commission indicated the names and addresses of the alleged victims and advised that they would be represented by Javier Mujica Petit of CEDAL and María Clara Galvis of CEJIL. 15. On January 11, 2002, the Secretariat of the Court (hereinafter “the Secretariat”), on the instruction of the President of the Court (hereinafter “the President”), and pursuant to Article 34 of the Rules of Procedure, requested the Commission to forward, within 20 days, several appendices to the application which were incomplete or illegible. On February 4, 2002, the Commission submitted these appendices. 16. On January 17, 2002, following the President’s preliminary examination of the application, the Secretariat notified it to the State, together with its appendices, and informed the State of the time limits for answering it and designating its Agent for the proceeding. In addition, the same day, the Secretariat, on the instructions of the President and in accordance with the provisions of Article 18 of the Rules of Procedure and Article 10 of the Statute of the Court, informed the State of its right to appoint a judge ad hoc to take part in the consideration of the instant case. Also, on the same day, pursuant to the provisions of Article 35(4) and 35(1)(e) of the Rules of Procedure, the application was notified to the representatives of the alleged victims and their next of kin, and CEDAL and CEJIL, represented by Javier Mujica Petit and María Clara Galvis, respectively, so that they could present their brief on requests, arguments and evidence. Furthermore, pursuant to Article 35(1)(d) of the Rules of Procedure, the application was notified to the original claimant, Francisco Soberón, Director General of the Association for Human Rights (APRODEH). 17. On February 14, 2002, the State presented a note, in which it advised that it had appointed Javier de Belaunde López de Romaña as Judge ad hoc and Fernando Elías Mantero as its Agent. 18. On February 14, 2002, the representatives of the alleged victims and their next of kin forwarded a communication in which they requested an extension of 20 days to present the brief on requests, arguments and evidence (art. 35(4) of the Rules of Procedure). The following day, the Secretariat, on the instructions of the President, informed the said representatives that an extension had been granted until March 4, 2002. 19. On March 1, 2002, the Secretariat, on the instructions of the President, informed the parties that the name of the case had been changed from “Torres Benvenuto et al.” to “Five Pensioners”. 20. On March 5, 2002, the representatives of the alleged victims and their next of kin transmitted, via facsimile, the brief on requests, arguments and evidence. Then, on March 8, 2002, they presented the original of this brief, together with all its appendices, except the first and the fifth.