56 146. The representatives asked the Court to order the State to pay legal expenses and costs, including those for two attorneys representing them in the domestic legal proceedings. This adds up to US$50,000.00 (fifty thousand United States dollars) each. With respect to the bodies intervening in the international proceedings, both before the Inter-American Commission and before the Court, they requested the following amounts: for CELS, US$15,000.00 (fifteen thousand United States dollars); for CEJIL, US$10,000.00 (ten thousand United States dollars); and for CORREPI, US$15,000.00 (fifteen thousand United States dollars). Arguments of the Commission 147. The Commission asked the Court to order the State to pay the expenses and costs generated by processing of the case, both domestically and before the interAmerican system, based on the following criteria: a) the fees of attorneys María del Carmen Verdú and Daniel A. Stragá for their actions before the Argentinean and international courts during a ten-year period, as well as expenses for phone calls, photocopies, mail services, travel to Washington, D.C. and Costa Rica, are estimated at US$50,000.00 (fifty thousand United States dollars) for each attorney, adding up to US$100,000.00 (one hundred thousand United States dollars); and b) the fees for the attorneys of CELS, CEJIL and CORREPI for their participation in the case once it began under international jurisdiction, are as follows: for the attorneys of CORREPI, US$ 11,000.00 (eleven thousand United States dollars); for the attorneys of CELS, US$ 11.100.00 (eleven thousand one hundred United States dollars) and for the attorneys of CEJIL, US$ 4.050.00 (four thousand and fifty United States dollars). Arguments of the State 148. The State asked the Court to take into account the decision in the Alobotoe et al. Case, in that, considering that the State had explicitly acknowledged its international responsibility and had not obstructed the procedure to set reparations, the Commission’s request to order the State to pay the costs was dismissed. 149. Alternatively, the State requested that to establish costs and expenses it take into account the decision in the Castillo Páez Case, regarding judicious assessment of the specific scope of the legal costs, considering to this end their timely verification. Considerations of the Court 150. As the Court has already stated several times before,106 legal costs and expenses are included under the concept of reparation set forth in Article 63(1) of the American Convention, in view of the fact that the actions carried out by the next 106 Cf., Juan Humberto Sánchez Case, supra note 4, para. 193; Las Palmeras Case, Reparations, supra note 5, para. 82; and El Caracazo Case, Reparations, supra note 5, para. 130.