3 7. On March 4, 1998, the President of the Court (hereinafter “the President”) extended the deadline until March 27, 1998, to permit the relatives of Mr. Nicholas Blake or their representatives and the Commission to submit their briefs on reparations. The President also extended the deadline for the Government to submit its brief on the same topic until May 27, 1998. 8. On March 9, 1998, the Inter-American Commission informed the Court of the designation of Mr. Domingo E. Acevedo to serve with Delegate Claudio Grossman as a delegate in this case. 9. On March 9, 1998, the President summoned the relatives of Mr. Nicholas Blake or their representatives, the Inter-American Commission, and Guatemala to a public hearing on reparations, to be celebrated on June 10, 1998 at the seat of the Court. 10. On March 27, 1998, the Inter-American Commission submitted its brief on reparations in the present case. 11. On that same day the relatives of Mr. Nicholas Blake submitted their brief on reparations in English. On March 30, 1998, the corresponding annexes arrived at the Court. On April 14, 1998, the Spanish translation of the brief on reparations was received. 12. On May 22, 1998, the State requested that the President extend the deadline for its observations on the reparations briefs submitted by the relatives of Mr. Nicholas Blake and the Commission until June 2, 1998. On that same day the Secretariat informed Guatemala that the deadline for it to submit its brief had been postponed until the requested date. 13. On June 2, 1998, Guatemala submitted its observations to the reparations briefs of the relatives of Mr. Nicholas Blake and the Commission. 14. On June 10, 1998, the Court held a public hearing on reparations. There appeared: for the relatives of Mr. Nicholas Blake: Joanne Hoeper; for the Inter-American Commission: Domingo E. Acevedo, delegate for the State of Guatemala: Dennis Alonzo Mazariegos, agent; Ambassador Guillermo Argueta Villagrán, counsel; and Alejandro Sánchez Garrido, assistant. 15. On June 12, 1998, the State submitted a report on the procedural situation of the criminal trial concerning Mr. Nicholas Blake, processed in the Department of