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Law regulating the Notarial Processing of Matters of Voluntary Jurisdiction, Decree Law No. 54-77 of November 5,
1977, art. 29 (evidence file, folio 396).
391
392
Expert opinion provided by Jaime Tecú during the public hearing held before this Court.
The State was asked to provide these reports as helpful evidence. The State indicated that it had asked the
judiciary to provide them and would forward them to the Court once they had been received. At the date of the delivery
of this judgment, the said reports had not been presented to the Court.
393
Adoption papers of June 2, 1998, with regard to Osmín Tobar Ramírez (evidence file, folios 125 and 126), and
adoption papers of June 2, 1998, with regard to J.R. (evidence file, folios 117 and 118).
394
Law regulating the Notarial Processing of Matters of Voluntary Jurisdiction, Decree Law No. 54-77 of November 5,
1977, arts. 28 to 32 (evidence file, folio 396).
395
Cf. CICIG, Report on irregular adoptions in Guatemala, p. 23 (evidence file, folio 3020). See, similarly, written
version of the expert opinion provided by Jaime Tecú during the public hearing held before this Court (merits report,
folio 1098), and Expert opinion of Nigel Cantwell provided by affidavit on May 5, 2017 (evidence file, folio 6823).
396
Cf. Committee on the Rights of the Child, General Comment No. 5: General measures of implementation of the
Convention on the Rights of the Child (Articles 4 and 42 and Article 44(6)), November 27, 2003, UN Doc.
CRC/GC/2003/5, para. 43.
397
Cf. Committee on the Rights of the Child, General Comment No. 5: General measures of implementation of the
Convention on the Rights of the Child (Articles 4 and 42 and Article 44(6)), November 27, 2003, UN Doc.
CRC/GC/2003/5, para. 44.
398
Cf. 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. 25.
399