Procedure
The
application
March 2011
was
received
at the
Registry
of the
Court
on
13
by electronic mail and notified to the Respondent, and other
entities under Rule 35 of the Rules of Court,
by separate
letters of 17
June, 2011.
As
the
Applicant
had
submitted
his
Peoples’
Rights
Registry,
by letter of 28 March,
conformity
formally
complaint
indicated
to the
in
African
(“the Commission”)
with Rule 29(6)
withdrawn,
and
by
his
Commission
and
2011,
application
on
that
he
had
Human
and
that he has withdrawn
it, the
inquired from the Commission,
of its Rules,
whether the matter
letter of 19
May,
2011,
the
had
in
been
Commission
confirmed that it is so.
. The Applicant also requested by letter dated 10 May 2011, that the then
Acting Registrar and Justice Tambala, a national of Malawi, be excluded
from the proceedings, and during its 21*' Ordinary Session held from 6 —
17
June,
recused
2011,
the
himself and
he would
Court
noted
that
that in accordance
not hear the matter.
It also
Justice
Tambala
has
already
with Article 22 of the Protocol,
noted
that the Acting
Registrar
would in any case not participate in the deliberations of the Court as he
is not one
of the Judges.
By a
letter of 8 July,
informed the Applicant accordingly. anak
2011,
the
Registrar