a.
The Court lacks jurisdiction to entertain the application against the
Respondent;
b.
That the Court also lacks the jurisdiction to entertain the application as
against the Respondent/Applicant for violation of pregnant girls rights.
The submission of the Respondent
Sierra Leone
personality
is that 2nd Applicant is not registered in
and that Pregnant Adolescents
and
as such
both cannot
School Girls is also not a legal
sue or be sued
in their names.
The
Respondent therefore urged the Court to dismiss the application and all
annexures with costs.
Amicua Curiae
On 28/02/2019, Amnesty International approached the Court via a motion
seeking for leave of the Court to make written submission as Amicus Curiae. On
the 7/05/19, the Court had its first session in the case and both parties were
duly represented by their counsel and the counsel of Amnesty International was
in attendance. The application by the Amnesty International was granted. The
Respondent's request for adjournment to enable it file its response to the
Applicants’ application was equally granted with costs of Ten Thousand United
States Dollars (US$10,000) in favour of the Applicants. The Applicants applied
for the name of the 2" Applicant to be struck out from the suit and same was
granted making the 1" Applicant the sole Applicant in the case.
On 03/06/2019, the Respondent filed its Defence to the Applicant's application
whiles the Amnesty International filed its amicus curiae submission on the
19/06/19.