Vill. ADMISSIBILITY OF THE APPLICATION FOR REVIEW 25. Article 28(3) of the Protocol empowers the Court to review its decisions under conditions to be set out in its Rules. 26. The Court recalls that Article 28(3) of the Protocol requires that the process of review must be without prejudice to Article 28(2) of the Protocol; that is, such a process may not be used judgments. to undermine the principle of finality of It is against this background that the Applicant’s Application for review shall be considered.” 27. Rule 67(1) of the Rules, provides that the Court may review its judgment: . in the event of the discovery of evidence, which was knowledge of the party at the time judgment was delivered. not within the Such application shall be filed within six (6) months after that party acquired knowledge of the evidence so discovered. In addition, Rule 67(2) provides that: [T]he application shall specify the judgment in respect of which revision is requested, contain the information necessary to show that the conditions laid down in sub-rule 1 of this Rule have been met, and shall be accompanied by a copy of all relevant supporting documents. The application as well as the supporting documents shall be filed in the Registry. 28. Under Rule 67 of the Rules, therefore, the onus is on an applicant to demonstrate, in his application, the discovery of new evidence of which he had no knowledge of at the time of the Court’s judgment as well as the time ? Urban Mkwandawire v Malawi (review and interpretation) (2014) 1 AfCLR 299 § 14. 7

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