conventionality entails the obligation of national judges to consider in their decisions180
both the instruments of the inter-American system and the case law of the Court, an
obligation that extends to other domestic authorities.181 In this specific case, this entails
the Inter-American Court’s duty to contemplate the implications of its judgment for the
establishment of its standards in order to ensure the soundness of its precedents. In
Hendrix v. Guatemala, the discrepancy that I respectfully perceived in relation to the path
followed by the Court on the issue of equality and non-discrimination has led me to record
this discrepancy.
Rodrigo Mudrovitsch
Judge
Pablo Saavedra Alessandri
Registrar
180
Cf. Case of Almonacid Arellano et al. v. Chile. Preliminary objections, merits, reparations and costs.
Judgment of September 26, 2006. Series C No. 154, para. 124.
181
193.
Cf. Case of Gelman v. Uruguay. Order on monitoring compliance with judgment of March 20, 2013, para.
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