application for review. This falls within the very logic of the prerogatives conferred on it by the legislator in the second part of paragraph 6 of the abovementioned Articles and would actually have led to a reasonable referral time of three (3) months and six (6) days. 24. This would have been even more pertinent, as the Court proferred as grounds for this lengthy time frame the fact that the Applicants were laymen in prison and did not have the benefit of legal assistance® - information not proven given that before this Court the Applicants did not need lawyers to defend themselves. Bensaoula Chafika Judge at the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights ° Paragraph 50 of the Judgment