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incurred for the purposes of the proceedings before it, the Applicant did not provide
any supporting documents. The same obtains for the Applicant's claim for
reimbursement of additional procedural costs following the partial reopening of the
proceedings in the wake of the Order of 1 October 2019.
'141 .
As the Court reiterates in this Judgment, reimbursement of the costs of proceedings
must be substantiated by evidence.
142.|n the instant case, the Court cannot order the reimbursement of lawyers' fees, the
cost of administrative processing of documents, procedural deeds and their dispatch
by DHL, for lack of justification of the said expenses.2a
143. ln view of the circumstances of this case, the Court decides that each party shall
bear its own costs
VII.
OPERATIVE PART
144. For these reasons,
THE COURT,
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On the repantions claimed by the Applicant
1.
Pecuniary reparations
a
Material prejudice
Unanimously
2a
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