5 9, 1998, the Commission named Mr. Helio Bicudo and Mr. Domingo E. Acevedo as its Delegates. By a note received on June 18, 1998, Ms. Matamoros informed the Court that she was resigning her role in the instant Case. 12. On August 23, 1996, once the President of the Court (hereinafter “the President”) had done a preliminary review of the application, the Secretariat of the Court (hereinafter “the Secretariat”) sent the State notification of the application and advised it of the time limits for filing its reply and any preliminary objections and for designating its representation in the proceedings. The Secretariat also invited the State to name a judge ad hoc. 13. On September 6, 1996, Peru informed the Court that Mr. Jorge Hawie Soret had been designated as the State’s Agent in the case. 14. At the State’s request, on September 19, 1996, the President extended the deadline for designation of the judge ad hoc to October 8, 1996. On October 4, 1996, the State designated Mr. Fernando Vidal-Ramírez as judge ad hoc. 15. On September 20, 1996, the State entered preliminary objections, which it classified as follows: One: Failure to exhaust local remedies; Two: Case already decided by the Commission; Three: Res judicata; Four: Extemporaneous filing; Five: Lack of jurisdiction of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights; Six: Procedural error, lack of competence and lack of standing (proceedings conducted with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights invalid by reason of [...] the omissions and irregularities present); and Seven: The Commission’s lack of standing.