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19.
That the State alleged that the CEE complies with the requirements of the Judgment
as to the creation of an "independent and impartial body". According to the State, the
Ministry of Justice interpreted the text of the Judgment to the effect that the State did not
have "the obligation to set up an arbitration tribunal, but that it was a power of the State to
establish a body in charge of interpreting and enforcing the Judgment". The State sustained
that the CEE was independent in the sense that it only received logistical and secretarial
support from the Ministry of Justice, apart from which it had total liberty in the procedure to
make its own decisions about the dismissals and legal consequences. As to the impartiality
of the body, the State emphasized that the members of the CEE were “five prestigious
members of the forum of domestic law, which were persons and professional of recognized
moral and ethical solvency”, alleging that each one of them was impartial. It also noted that
the five members performed their duties for free.
20.
That the common interveners alleged that the CEE lacks the characteristic of
independence required by the Judgment, since the State – by means of the formation of the
CEE- abandoned the evaluation commission, which was the result of a negotiation process
of more than one year and the common understanding of the victims and the State. They
alleged that the CEE, “given that it was completely formed by representatives appointed
exclusively by the State [,] which was overcome in the process that gave rise to the
[Judgment], […] questions the impartiality and independence that the Court required”.
Moreover, a group of victims alleged that the CEE does not comply with the Judgment for
failing “to overcome the constitutional and conventional deficiencies of the judicial processes
conducted before the Fifth Chamber and Constitutional Tribunal, deficiencies that […] are
verified with the lack of impartiality and independence of its members”.
21.
That, other group of victims, by means of their representatives, argued that
according to the domestic regulation on enforcement of supranational judgments, specially
Act 27.775, the competent body to enforce the Judgment is the Chamber before which the
domestic remedies were exhausted - that is, the Fifth Civil Chamber of the Supreme Court
of Lima in the instant case- which ordered the enforcement by the court that heard the prior
proceeding, which would be the judge in charge of the 28° Civil Trial Court of Lima.
Therefore, they deemed that the establishment of any commission by the Legislative branch
is not valid.
22.
That other victims’ representatives alleged that, in order to be an independent and
impartial body and to have the power to make final and binding decisions, the body that the
State must set up to comply with operative paragraph four would have to be a body of the
Judiciary, that is, a judicial or arbitration court. This would be according to Articles 139.1
and 139.2 of the Political Constitution of Peru, which provides that the judicial branch
represents “the unity and exclusivity of the judiciary” and that “there is no judicial process
before a commission or delegation”. In addition, they sustained that the CEE, given that it is
a body predetermined by law, violates Article 8 of the American Convention. They deemed
that, otherwise, the formation of the body is solely an administrative act that may be
questioned before a court, “having, as a result, no compulsory and final nature as required
by the [Judgment]". They also noted that, during the processing of the case, the State
proposed a commitment to set up a multi-sectorial commission that would review the
corresponding dismissals and grant benefits, following the guidelines drawn up in the legal
norms that established the review of collective dismissals, but that this Tribunal decided to
order the formation of an independent and impartial body to review the dismissals; that is,
it did not accept a very similar proposal to the one that the State had finally implemented.
23.
That the Commission stated that the access to a simple, prompt and effective
recourse leads to the need of ensuring some guarantees not only in judicial proceedings but
also in administrative acts, according to the own case-law of the Court. Furthermore, the
Commission noted that, when it was informed in December 2008 that the CEE had been set