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PROCEEDING AT THE REPARATIONS STAGE
4.
On January 21, 2000, the President of the Court (hereinafter “the President”),
in compliance with the judgment of September 29, 1999, decided:
1.
To grant the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights until
March 3, 2000, to submit a brief and any evidence it had. for the
purpose of determining reparations and costs in the instant case.
2.
To grant Gustavo Adolfo Cesti Hurtado, the victim in this case,
or his legal representative, until March 3, 2000, to submit a brief and
any evidence he had, for the purpose of determining reparations and
costs in the instant case.
3.
To instruct the Secretariat of the Court to remit all the briefs
and evidence submitted to the State of Peru, once the period
mentioned in the previous operative paragraphs has expired.
4.
To grant the State of Peru a period of six weeks, from the date
on which it receives the briefs and the evidence referred to in
operative paragraphs 1 and 2, to submit its comments and any
evidence it had, for the purpose of determining reparations and costs
in the instant case.
5.
To summon Gustavo Adolfo Cesti Hurtado, the victim in this
case, or his legal representative, and also the Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights and the State of Peru to a public
hearing at a date that will be announced in due course, once the
written stage of the proceeding has been completed.
5.
On March 1, 2000, the Inter-American Commission submitted its brief on
reparations and expenses
6.
On March 2, 2000, Gustavo Adolfo Cesti Hurtado (hereinafter “Mr. Cesti” or
“the victim”) submitted his brief and certain documentary evidence relating to
reparations, in 14 annexes (infra 24).
7.
On March 20, 2000, the President summoned Mr. Cesti or his legal
representative, Peru and the Inter-American Commission to a public hearing on
reparations, to be held at the seat of the Court on June 16 that year.
8.
On April 7, 2000, the Secretariat of the Court (hereinafter “the Secretariat”)
advised Mr. Cesti, the Inter-American Commission and the State that the Fortyeighth Regular Session of the Inter-American Court had been suspended, and that
the public hearing on reparations programmed for that session (supra 7) would be
convened again, in due course.
9.
On April 13, 2000, the State requested the President to extend the period
established for formulating its comments on the briefs on reparations submitted by
the victim and the Inter-American Commission.
The following day, on the
instructions of the President, the Secretariat advised Peru that the period for
submitting its brief had been extended until May 3, 2000.