000624, 32. The Court further notes that the Applicant claims violations of his rights guaranteed by the Charter, rather than basing his claim merely on the technicalities of the civil case. The violations alleged in the Application are related to the right to a fair trial which falls within the ambit of the Charter which guarantees such rights. Also, the Respondent State has not demonstrated how the Application is not in conformity with the Constitutive Act of the African Union or the Charter. 33 ln light of the foregoing, the court dismisses the Respondent State,s objection B. objection on failure to file the Application within a reasonable time 34. The Respondent State avers that the Application has not been filed within a reasonable period as required by Rule 40(6) of the Rules and therefore is not admissible. lt alleges that the relevant period of time is that between the decision of the court of Appeal in civil Appeal No. 76 of 2011 on 20 December 2011 and 17 June 2016, the date on which the Respondent State received the Application. The Respondent State therefore computes that period to five (5) years and six (6) months and argues that this cannot be considered reasonable time. 35.The Respondent State further contends that developments in international human rights jurisprudence have established a period of six (6) months as reasonable time, and refers to the case of Majuru v Zimbabwe (2008), ALHRLR 146 before the African commission on Human and Peoples' Rights. The Respondent State goes on to aver that the Court was already in existence when the Applicant submitted his appeal to the Court of Appealand therefore the Applicant could have instituted his application before this Court within a period of six (6) months. 36. Finally, according to the Respondent State, the reasonableness of a time period must be assessed on a case-by-case basis and, as the Applicant was neither imprisoned nor indigent, but rather was able to pay and had access to a lawyer and "could be aware of the existence of this Court", the Applicant has let a reasonable time elapse 11 $"n^r-