“Access to the Court is open to … individuals on application for relief for violation of their human rights”. By virtue of this Article, for every action relating to human rights protection, cases before the Court must be filed by an individual or a corporate body who fulfills the requirement of being a victim. In the case of STARCREST INVESTMENT LTD V. PRESIDENT ECOWAS COMMISSION (2011) CCJELR 165, ECW/CCJ/APP/01/08 Judgment of 8th July 2011, the Court held as follows; “This Court thus held in the case of the Registered Trustees of the SocioEconomic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) v. President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and 8 Ors. Suit No. ECW/CCJ/APP/08/09 delivered on 10th December, 2010 unreported that no action could lie against a corporate body in human rights cases before this Court. By parity of reasoning, the converse of the decision just cited is equally true and that is, no corporate body can bring a human rights case before this Court as a Plaintiff as an alleged victim of human rights abuse. Thus the provisions of the ACHPR do not avail the Plaintiff in this Court in so far as they complain about human rights abuse against them as a Company” (Paragraph 17 of the Judgment of 8th July, 2011) . The Plaintiff’s reliefs have been carefully evaluated to see whether any of its complaints has to do with right to fair hearing in order to ground the action under the exception created by this Court within its inherent jurisdiction. In the OCEAN KING NIGERIA LIMITED V. REPUBLIC OF SENEGAL (cited supra) the Court held that it will exercise its inherent jurisdiction to entertain an application by an aggrieved 17

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