85. Rule 50(2) of the Rules,21 which in substance restates the provisions of
Article 56 of the Charter, provides:
Applications filed before the Court shall comply with all of the following
conditions:
a)
Indicate their authors even if the latter request anonymity,
b)
Are compatible with the Constitutive Act of the African Union
and with the Charter,
c)
Are not written in disparaging or insulting language directed
against the State concerned and its institutions or the African
Union,
d)
Are not based exclusively on news disseminated through the
mass media,
e)
Are sent after exhausting local remedies, if any, unless it is
obvious that this procedure is unduly prolonged,
f)
Are submitted within a reasonable time from the date local
remedies were exhausted or from the date set by the Court as
being the commencement of the time limit within which it shall
be seised with the matter; and
g)
Do not deal with cases which have been settled by those States
involved in accordance with the principles of the Charter of the
United Nations, or the Constitutive Act of African Union or the
provisions of the Charter.
86. The Court notes that the Respondent State raises objections to the
admissibility of the Application based on failure to exhaust local remedies,
failure to file the Application within a reasonable time and on the fact that
the matter was previously settled.
87. The Court will, first, consider these objections before examining other
admissibility requirements, if necessary.
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Rule 40 of the Rules of Court of 2 June 2010.
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