2 I 3. The Court has jurisdiction to order the payment of fair compensation to the injured party in the instant case. Honduras ratified the Convention on September 8, 1977, and recognized the contentious jurisdiction of the Court on September 9, 1981, by depositing the instrument referred to in Article 62 of the Convention. The Commission submitted the case to the Court pursuant to Articles 61 of the Convention and 50 (1) and 50 (2) of its Regulations, and the Court decided the case on January 20, 1989. II 4. By Resolution of January 20, 1989, the Court decided: 1. To authorize the President, to consult with the Permanent Commission of the Court, to initiate whatever studies and name whatever experts might be convenient, so the Court will have the elements of judgment necessary to set the form and amount of compensation. 2. To authorize the President to obtain the opinion of the victim's family, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and the Government of Honduras. 3. To authorize the President, should it be necessary, and following consultation with the Permanent Commission of the Court, to set a hearing in this matter. 5. The attorneys recognized as counselors or advisers to the Commission (hereinafter "the attorneys") asked the Court for a public hearing to receive a psychiatric report on the moral damages suffered by the victim's family and the testimony of one of the experts on the methods and conclusions of the report. 6. Citing paragraph 2 of the Resolution of January 20, 1989, Mrs. Enmidida Escoto de Godínez, the wife of Saúl Godínez Cruz, submitted a pleading dated February 26, 1989, in which she asked the Court to order the Government to comply with the following points: 1) An end to forced disappearances in Honduras. 2) An investigation of each of the 150 cases. 3) A complete and truthful public report on what happened to the disappeared persons. 4) The trial and punishment of those responsible for this practice. 5) A public undertaking to respect human rights, especially the rights to life, liberty, and integrity of the person.