132. To do this, the Court must verify whether the conditions that authorize
the parties to use this exceptional revision procedure are met, or more
precisely, whether the conditions for its admissibility are met.
133. And as this Court concluded, “The conditions of an application for
revision such as provided for in Article 25 of the Protocol A/P/P1/7/91 are
related to the discovery by the Applicant of a new fact, of nature as exerting
a decisive influence on the decision, the ignorance of this fact not being due
to the negligence of the Applicant.” (See case MRS TOKUNBO LIJADU
OYEMADE V. COUNCIL OF MINISTERS & 4 ORS, in the decision
rendered on November 17th, 2009, for Application Revision in Judgment
No. ECW/CCJ/JUD/02/08, Reported in LR2009- §29)
134. These conditions or assumptions of admissibility are to be verified
cumulatively, and the lack of one of them, by itself, determines the
inadmissibility of the application.
135. This is the understanding of this Court in the Judgment mentioned
above while stating that: "The Revision of a court decision is an exceptional
procedure and subject to strict interpretation. The Court ensures that the
conditions of admissibility provided for Revision are fulfilled before
everything else. The default of one of the conditions renders the application
inadmissible independently of the appreciation of the other conditions.” (see
§31)
136. This Court listed the conditions for the admissibility of an application
for Revision in the case MUSA SAIDYKHAN V. THE REPUBLIC OF THE
GAMBIA, RULING No. ECW/CCJ/APP/RUL/03/12, REPORTED IN 2012
CCJELR, in this way: “The first condition to be met to succeed with a review
application is that the application must have been filed within five years of
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