it would weaken the principles of legal security and certainty, which, in the case of human rights, also benefit the victims of their violation by ensuring compliance with the Court’s judgments because they are solidly based on the undertakings sovereignly made by the States. 104. Regarding the last point, it should be recalled that, in practice and over and above any theoretical consideration, the Court’s function is, in particular, to deliver judgments that re-establish as soon as possible respect for the human rights violated in any specific case. It is not so sure that this is achieved with regard to violations of rights that were not considered justiciable before the Court in the Convention, or when, rather than trying to decide the case submitted to it, it would appear that the main concern has been to establish norms, rules or standards of general application and not to specifically deliver judgment in a case and that, based on this and on several judgments delivered in the same sense or in the same direction, case law is consequently developed composed of several similar precedents. Eduardo Vio Grossi Judge Pablo Saavedra Alessandri Secretary