000306 evidence on file shows that the Respondent State was aware of the Commission's findings. ln any event, only the national judge, subject to a denial of justice, may re-examine and validly adjudicate on the facts initially placed on the file record of a case. ll. Messers Werema's Application against Tanzania should be deemed inadmissible for having been filed in an unreasonable time o 12. An action can only be brought within an acceptable period of time, mindful of the procedure and guaranteeing the rights of others. "Reasonable period of time"s presupposes three dimensions, that is, the reasonable period of time to be respected in domestic proceedings, the reasonable period of time within which the international court must render its decision and, finally, the reasonable period of time that the applicant must observe in submitting his application to the international judge6. lt is the latter dimension that is at issue in the Werema case before this Court. ln the same vein, the lnternational Court of Justice recognized a corpus of rules in its Advisory Opinion on the Review of Judgment No. 158 of the United Nafions Administrative Tribunal in 19737, which includes procedural rights, "the right of access to an independent and impartial tribunal established by law, the right to obtain a court decision within a reasonable time ... ". This is the line followed by the Court and as expressed in Norbert Zongo v. Burkina Faso8, of which the famous paragraph 121 states that the Court "appreciates the reasonableness of reasonable time on a case-by-case basis" (A). This analysis leads to the conclusion that the Messers Werema arrived late before the African Court and that their application does not respect the fundamental principle of reasonable time (B). A. An infringement of the fundamental principle of reasonable time o 13. Desperate, the applicants seem to have simply gone in search of new judgments in disregard of the time and the role of each jurisdiction. ln Ernesf Francis Mtingwiv. s Article 8.1 of the Inter-American Convention on Human Rights provides that: 'Every person has the right to a hearing, with due guarantees and within a reasonable time, by a competent, independent, and impartial tribunal, previously established by law..." 6 Article 7 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights stipulates that.' "Every individual shall have the right to have his cause heard. This comprises: ... the right to be tried within reasonable a time by an impartial court or tribunal". 7 ICJ : Application for review of Judgment No. 158 of the United Nafrons Administrative Tribunal, Advisory Opinion,121711973, Rec. 1973, p. 209, $92 8 ACHPR, Matter of Norbert Zongo, Preliminary objection and merits, 291612013 and 281312014 4