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 seized 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. 30. The Court notes that the Respondent State raises an objection to the admissibility of the Application based on non-exhaustion of local remedies, on which the Court will rule before examining other admissibility requirements, if necessary. A. Objection based on non-exhaustion of local remedies 31. The Respondent State contends that an individual may bring a dispute against their State before an international court only after having submitted the same to the judicial authorities of that State with a view to giving them the opportunity to redress the effects of the disputed decision or act of the State. 32. It submits that local judicial remedies are available to anyone who feels aggrieved to seek redress for any violations of their fundamental rights. To this end, it cites Article 827 of Law No. 2008-07 of 28 February 2011 on the Civil, Commercial, Social, Administrative and Accounting Procedure Code (hereinafter “the Civil Procedure Code”). In the same vein, the Respondent State asserts that the Applicant did not lodge a complaint with any authority and did not exercise any contentious remedy in accordance with the abovementioned article. 9

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