a. The Court lacks jurisdiction to entertain the application against the Respondent; b. That the Court also lacks the jurisdiction to entertain the application as against the Respondent/Applicant for violation of pregnant girls rights. The submission of the Respondent Sierra Leone personality is that 2nd Applicant is not registered in and that Pregnant Adolescents and as such both cannot School Girls is also not a legal sue or be sued in their names. The Respondent therefore urged the Court to dismiss the application and all annexures with costs. Amicua Curiae On 28/02/2019, Amnesty International approached the Court via a motion seeking for leave of the Court to make written submission as Amicus Curiae. On the 7/05/19, the Court had its first session in the case and both parties were duly represented by their counsel and the counsel of Amnesty International was in attendance. The application by the Amnesty International was granted. The Respondent's request for adjournment to enable it file its response to the Applicants’ application was equally granted with costs of Ten Thousand United States Dollars (US$10,000) in favour of the Applicants. The Applicants applied for the name of the 2" Applicant to be struck out from the suit and same was granted making the 1" Applicant the sole Applicant in the case. On 03/06/2019, the Respondent filed its Defence to the Applicant's application whiles the Amnesty International filed its amicus curiae submission on the 19/06/19.

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