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updated subsequently based on new costs and expenses incurred due to the proceedings
before this Court.”263
303. Regarding the expenses incurred in at a domestic level, the representatives referred
only to “[e]xpenses for domestic jurisdiction” for US$ 25,000, and in what refers to the
expenses incurred in at an international level to “[t]rips to Washington D.C., during the
proceedings before the Commission” for US$ 10,000; “[c]ommunications” for US$ 1,500;
“[p]aperworks and deliveries” for US$ 1,500; and “[l]egal fees” for US$ 2,000. Additionally,
they referred to “[e]xpenses for the proceedings” before this Court, for US$ 10,000. The Court
verified that the representatives did not provide evidence regarding the mentioned expenses
and that the only receipts sent for these expenses correspond to the disbursements made by
the Legal Aid Fund for Victims. Therefore, the Court does not have the evidentiary support
necessary to determine the expenses incurred in.
304. Thus, the Court decides to set a total of US$ 10,000 (ten thousand dollars of the United
States of America), for the tasks carried out in the litigation of the case both nationally and
internationally, which the State must pay to the representatives in a six-month period as of
the notification of this judgment. The Court considers that, in the monitoring of compliance
of this judgment, it may order the State to reimburse the victims or their representatives for
the reasonable expenses incurred in by them in that procedural stage.
G. Reimbursement of expenses to the Legal Aid Fund for Victims
305. The Garífuna Community of Triunfo de la Cruz and its members, through their
representatives, requested support from the Court’s Legal Aid Fund for Victims to “cover funds
for the litigation in this case, due to the lack of economic possibilities to face the expenses
generated from it,” specifically “those related to air transportation, lodging, and food for the
victim’s representative and the witnesses accepted by the […] Court.”
306. Through a Resolution of December 18, 2013, the President of the Court accepted the
request filed by the victims and approved the granting of the economic help necessary for the
assistance of a maximum of two representatives and the presentation of a maximum of three
statements, either at the hearing or through affidavit.
307. According to the information included in the report on disbursements made in this
case, they ascended to USD$ 1,677.97 (one thousand six hundred and seventy-seven dollars
and ninety-seven cents of the United States of America). The State had the opportunity, up
to October 2, 2014, to present its observations to the disbursements made in this case and,
through its brief of that same date, informed “it did not have any observations to make.”
308. It corresponds to the Court, in application of Article 5 of the Rules of Procedure of the
Fund, to assess the requirements for ordering the respondent State the reimbursement to the
Legal Aid Fund for Victims of the disbursements in which it has incurred. Based on the
violations declared in this judgment, the Court orders the State the reimbursement to that
Fund of the amount of US $ 1,677.97 (one thousand six hundred and seventy-seven dollars
and ninety-seven cents of the United States of America) for the expenses incurred in. This
amount must be reimbursed to the Inter-American Court in a ninety-day period as of the
notification of this judgment.
Case of Chaparro Álvarez and Lapo Íñiguez v. Ecuador, para. 275, and Case of Omar Humberto Maldonado
Vargas et al. v. Chile, para. 182.
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