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b.
that they had various expenses for lodging, food, and telephone calls
(cfr. receipts from the Hotel Camino Real of Guatemala; La Trattoria, Guatemala; Restaurante
Marios, Guatemala, and Restaurante Romanello, Guatemala, the March 22, 1998 memorandum
of Richard and Mary Blake and attached receipts, and the March 26, 1998 affidavit of Richard R.
Blake Jr.);
c.
that they incurred various expenses in the search and discovery of the
mortal remains of Nicholas Blake
(cfr. note that consigned the expenses incurred by Mike Shawcross and receipts; May 19, 1992
contract with Felipe Alva, Military Commissioner Of Chiantla in the Department of
Huehuetenango; October 4, 1990 note from Sue H. Patterson, General Counsel of the Embassy of
the United States of America; airline tickets in the name of Douglas Owsley and John Verson; the
March 22, 1998 memorandum from Richard and Mary Blake, and attached receipts; and the
March 26, 1998 affidavit of Richard R. Blake Jr.); and
d.
that those who comprise the injured party have received medical
treatment, and that Samuel Blake continues receiving it.
(cfr. March 26, 1998 statement of Samuel W. Blake; March 26, 1998 affidavit of Richard R. Blake
Jr., and March 24, 1998 statement by Dr. Malcolm Owen Slavin).
e.
that the injured party has been represented by attorneys Joanne
Hoeper, Margarita Gutiérrez, A. James Vásquez-Aspiri, and Samuel Miller, of
San Francisco, California, and by the attorneys of the “International Human
Rights Group,” of Washington D.C., United States of America.
(cfr. May 21, 1997 note from Joanne Hoeper; March 27, 1998 affidavit of Joanne Hoeper, and
March 26, 1998 affidavit of Richard R. Blake Jr);
f..
that the attorneys who represented them have done so gratuitously or
pro bono
(cfr. March 27, 1998 affidavit of Joanne Hoeper, and March 26, 1998 affidavit of Richard R. Blake
Jr.); and
g.
that the injured party has incurred a series of expenses for the
preparation and submission of their petition before the Inter-American system
(cfr. May 21, 1997 note from Joanne Hoeper; March 27, 1998 affidavit of Joanne Hoeper, and
March 26, 1998 affidavit of Richard R. Blake Jr.)
41.
As previously stated, for the purpose of a decision on reparations in the
present case, only those proven facts that are relevant within the legal framework
indicated by the Court will be taken into consideration (supra 21), which is to say,
those that refer to the violation of Articles 5 and 8(1) of the American Convention in
relation to Article 1(1) of the Convention.
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42.
While the rule of restitutio in integrum is one form of reparation for an
international wrongful act (cfr. Factory at Chorzów, Merits, supra 33, p. 48), it is not