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B.2.b Failure to substantiate decisions
Cf. Case of Yatama v. Nicaragua. Preliminary objections, merits, reparations and costs. Judgment of June 23, 2005.
Series C No. 127, para. 152, and Case of Zegarra Marín v. Peru. Preliminary objections, merits, reparations and costs.
Judgment of February 15, 2017. Series C No. 331, para. 146.
356
Cf. Case of Apitz Barbera et al. (“First Court of Administrative Disputes”) v. Venezuela. Preliminary objection,
merits, reparations and costs. Judgment of August 5, 2008. Series C No. 182, para. 78, and Case of Chinchilla Sandoval
et al. v. Guatemala. Preliminary objection, merits, reparations and costs. Judgment of February 29, 2016. Series C No.
312 para. 248.
357
Committee on the Rights of the Child, General Comment No. 14 on the right of the child to have his or her best
interests taken as a primary consideration (art. 3, para. 1), UN Doc. CRC/C/GC/14, May 29, 2013, para. 14.b.
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Committee on the Rights of the Child, General Comment No. 14 on the right of the child to have his or her best
interests taken as a primary consideration (art. 3, para. 1), UN Doc. CRC/C/GC/14, May 29, 2013, para. 97.
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Cf. ECHR, R.M.S. v. Spain. Application No. 28775/12. Judgment of June 18, 2013, para. 82.