Guarantees and Constitutional Oversight, and vi) the powers of the
Constitutional Tribunal of Ecuador and the constitutional powers of the
Constitutional Court of Ecuador, applicable to the facts of this case.
5)
Pablo Alarcón Peña, who will testify on: i) the development of
jurisdictional guarantees in Ecuador; ii) the reform of jurisdictional guarantees
contemplated in the 1998 Political Constitution compared with the 2008
Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador; iii) the modification of the nature of
those guarantees (from preventive procedures to hearings, informal
proceedings, jurisdiction and emergence of comprehensive reparations), and iv)
the current role of the Constitutional Court of Ecuador in relation to the
jurisdictional guarantees.
2.
To require the representatives, the State and the Inter-American Commission,
as the case may be, to submit, if considered pertinent and within the non-renewable
term that expires on February 11, 2013, any questions deemed appropriate through
the Inter-American Court to the witnesses and expert witnesses mentioned in
Operative paragraph 1 of this Order. The statements and expert opinions required in
Operative paragraph 1 must be submitted no later than March 13, 2013.
3.
To require the representatives, the State, the Commission and the Secretariat of
the Court to coordinate and make the necessary arrangements so that, once the
respective questions of the parties have been received, the deponents and expert
witnesses may include the respective answers in their statements rendered by
affidavit, under the terms of Considering paragraph 42 of this Order.
4.
To require the Secretariat of the Court, once the statements and expert opinions
required in Operative paragraph 1 have been received, to transmit them to the parties
and to the Commission, so that they can submit their observations to those statements
and expert opinions, respectively, with their final arguments, at the latest.
5.
To summon the representatives, the State and the Inter-American Commission
to a public hearing to be held during the Court’s 47th Extraordinary Period of Sessions,
in the city of Medellín, Colombia, on March 18, 2013, from 15:00 hours, and on March
19, 2013, from 09:00 hours, in order to hear their final oral arguments and final oral
observations, respectively, regarding the preliminary objections and possible merits,
reparations and costs, as well as to receive the statements and expert opinions of the
following persons:
A) Alleged victim proposed by the representatives
1)
Oswaldo Cevallos Bueno, who will testify on: i) the alleged facts of the
case, and particularly the alleged proceedings against the judges and his
experience of dismissal; ii) the alleged personal consequences that he suffered
and may suffer due to the alleged violation of his human rights, and iii) his
potential feelings if he were to be compensated in the event of a violation of his
rights being declared.
B) Witness offered by the representatives
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