8. On August 18, September 6 and October 18, 2011, Mr. Reinaldo Bustamante Alarcón forwarded several communications on behalf of Jaime López Allendes, father of the girls M., V. and R., in relation to this case. In said briefs, the following requests were made: i) participation of the minors and legal representation by their father in the proceeding before the Inter-American Court; ii) request to include an intervener in the proceeding; iii) request to annul the proceedings before the Commission and the Court and iv) request to collaborate with the State’s brief. 9. On November 30, 2011, the Secretariat sent a note to Mr. Bustamante, following the instructions of the full Court, in reply to the briefs submitted (supra para. ¡Error! No se encuentra el origen de la referencia.). The note indicated that: i) in a Decision issued on November 29, 2011 the Court ordered, as evidence to facilitate adjudication of the case, that the three girls must be informed of their right to be personally heard by the Court (infra paras. ¡Error! No se encuentra el origen de la referencia. and ¡Error! No se encuentra el origen de la referencia.); ii) the Court is not competent to address requests made by individuals or organizations other than the alleged victims participating in the proceedings of a case before the Court; iii) the Court does not find irregularities in the manner in which notice of this case was served and iv) given that Mr. López is not a party to this case and that his participation as a third intervener has not been accepted, he does not have legal standing to present arguments as to the merits or evidence10. 10. Furthermore, the Court received the amici curiae briefs from: 1) the National Association of Judges of Chile [Asociación Nacional de Magistrados del Poder Judicial de Chile]11; 2) the Ombudsgay organization12; 3) Mr. José Pedro Silva Prado, a professor of Procedural Law and President of the Chilean Institute of Procedural Law; 4) Mr. José Ignacio Martínez Estay, a professor of the Jean Monnet Program, an initiative of the European Union, of the University of Los Andes, Chile; 5) the Human Rights Group [Nucleo Derechos Humanos] of the Law Department of the Pontificia Universidad Católica of Río de Janeiro13; 6) Mr. Diego Freedman, a professor at the School of Law of the University of Buenos Aires; 7) Ms. María Inés Franck, President of Asociación Civil Nueva Política and Mr. Jorge Nicolás Lafferriere, Director of Centro de Bioética, Persona and Familia; 8) the Research Seminary on Family and Individual Law, of the Law School of the Pontificia Universidad Católica of Argentina14; 9) Mr. Luis A. González Placencia, President of the Human Rights Commission Hernández Menéndez, Adviser of the Chilean Embassy in Colombia;; Milenko Bertrand-Galindo Arriagada, Felipe Bravo Allende and Alberto Vergara Arteaga. 10 Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Court confirmed that the evidence furnished by Mr. Bustamante, concerning psychological expert opinions on the three girls and statements rendered by several people, were forwarded by the parties as appendices to their main briefs, which included a copy of the main documents of the custody proceeding. 11 The brief was presented by Mr. Leopoldo Llanos Sagristá, Minister of the Appeals Court of Temuco, Chile and President of the National Association of Judges of Chile [Asociación Nacional de Magistrados del Poder Judicial de Chile]. 12 The brief was presented by Ms. Geraldina González de la Vega, Legal Adviser and Mr. Alejandro Juarez Zepeda, General Coordinator. 13 The brief was filed by Ms. Marcia Nina Bernardes, Professor at the Law Department and Coordinator of Nucleo de Derechos Humanos of Pontificia Universidad Católica of Rio of Janeiro; Andrea Schettini, Luiza Athayde, Maria Fernanda Marques, Isabella Benevides, Isabella Maioli, Julia Rosa, Juliana Streva, Karen Oliveira and Maria Eduarda Vianna; and Mr. Felipe Saldanha. 14 The brief was filed by Mr. Jorge Nicolás Laferriere and Ms. Úrsula C. Basset, Co-Directors of the Seminary. 6