53 Accordingly, he shall be the beneficiary of the reparations ordered by the Tribunal hereinbelow. B) i) Compensation Pecuniary damages 181. The Court has developed the notion of pecuniary damages and the cases in which compensation for them must be set.151 182. The Inter-American Commission pointed out that, in the instant case, since restitutio in integrum is not possible, compensation must be paid for the damages caused. The Commission also developed the general standards on reparations and requested that the Court order full reparation measures, “which also represent a message against impunity.” 183. The representatives considered that compensatory damages must include consequential damages and lost earnings and that they must be determined on equitable grounds, since, owing to the time elapsed, the victim did not keep the receipts of the alleged expenses. They pointed out that consequential damages include fees for legal counsel and other expenses incurred by Mr. Tristán Donoso in the two proceedings conducted in Panamá, the expenses he incurred when he emigrated to Canada in search of new opportunities, and the medical fees and money spent on medication for his father, whose health was adversely affected after the dismissal was reversed and the victim was called to trial. Additionally, the professional activity of the victim as a lawyer was affected by the criminal conviction entered against him. Hence, lost earnings include the income the victim did not receive as a consequence of the facts of the instant case, mainly after being stigmatized as a criminal; by the direct confrontation with such a prominent figure as the Procurador General de la Nación [National Attorney General], and by the fact that the was barred from being nominated as Supreme Court Justice due to the criminal punishment. 184. The Court observes that the representatives of the victim did not file any evidence to prove the alleged pecuniary damages. As it has been decided in previous cases, expenses incurred for legal counsel during domestic proceedings will be considered under the costs and expenses item.152 This Tribunal shall not set any compensation for the alleged lost earnings in relation to the professional activity of the victim, due to the lack of elements to evidence whether such losses actually existed, whether they resulted from the facts of the instant case or, possibly, which would have been the amount of such sums. Likewise, the Court finds it unproven that the victim had to flee Panamá because of the violations stated herein, as well as 151 This Court has established that pecuniary damages involve “the loss of or detriment to the victims' income, the expenses incurred as a result of the facts, and the monetary consequences that have a causal nexus with the facts of the sub judice case.” Cf. Case of Bámaca-Velásquez v. Guatemala. Reparations and Costs. Judgment of February 22, 2002. Series C No. 91, para. 43; Case of Ticona-Estrada et al., supra note 6, para. 111, and Case of Valle-Jaramillo et al., supra note 6, para. 212. 152 Cf. Case of Kimel, supra note 78, para. 109; Case of Heliodoro Portugal, supra note 66, para. 231; and Case of Ticona-Estrada et al., supra note 6, para. 124.

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