4 14. On February 20, 2002, the representatives of the alleged victim submitted the brief with requests, arguments and evidence together with seven attachments containing seven documents.2 In this brief, they requested the Court to declare that the State had violated Articles 1(1), 5, 7, 13, 8 and 25 of the American Convention, in accordance with the application submitted by the Commission, and also Article 11 of this Convention, because the alleged victim had been subjected to “arbitrary and abusive interference in her private life, in that of her family and in her correspondence […].” They also requested the Court to declare that the State had violated Articles 1, 6 and 8 of the Inter-American Convention against Torture. They requested the corresponding reparations and the payment of costs and expenses. Lastly, in this brief, they advised that Maritza Urrutia had appointed Fernando Arturo López Antillón, in his capacity as CALDH legal adviser, as “lawyer-intervenor” before the Court. 15. On March 18, 2002, the Inter-American Commission presented a brief with comments on the brief with requests, arguments and evidence of the representatives of the alleged victim, in which it noted the contents and reiterated the request that the Court declare that the State was responsible for violating Articles 7, 5, 13, 8 and 25 of the American Convention together with Article 1(1) thereof. 16. On March 21, 2002, the State presented a brief answering the application, in which it forwarded the declaration of the President of Guatemala of August 9, 2000, which referred to the acknowledgement of the “institutional responsibility of the State” (supra para. 6). The State also requested that an alternative friendly settlement mechanism be established and, if this was not possible, that the Court deliver the respective judgment without the need for hearings or any other type of formality; lastly, it made some observations on the reparations requested. 17. On November 8, 2002, the Secretariat, on the instructions of the President, requested the Commission and the representatives of the alleged victim to submit their final list of witnesses and expert witnesses for the public hearing to the InterAmerican Court before November 21, 2002. 18. On November 20, 2002, the representatives of the alleged victim presented the final list of witnesses and the expert witness for the public hearing. Also, on December 3, 2002, the Inter-American Commission forwarded its final list of witnesses and one expert witness. 19. On November 30, 2002, the President issued an order in which he convened the parties to a public hearing to be held at the seat of the Court commencing on February 21, 2003, to receive their oral arguments on merits and possible reparations, and also the statements of the witnesses and the report of the expert witness proposed by the Commission and by the representatives of the alleged victim. 20. On February 20 and 21, 2003, the Court received the statements of the witnesses and the report of the expert witness and hear the final oral arguments of the parties. There appeared before the Court: 2 Cf. Attachments 1 to 7 of the brief of February 20, 2002, on requests, arguments and evidence of the representatives of the alleged victim (folios 92 to 101 of Tome I of the file on merits and possible reparations).