21. In the light of the foregoing, the Court finds that it has personal jurisdiction to hear
the Application for Review, which was received on 17 January 2022.
VII.
ADMISSIBILITY
22. The Applicant states that, on reading the Judgment, he discovered four (4) new
facts that negatively influenced the outcome of the case, which he prays the Court
to review.
23. The Court observes that within the meaning of Article 28(2) of the Protocol, which
restates the provisions of Rule 72(1) of the Rules of Court, its judgments are final
and not subject to appeal. However, under Article 28(3) of the Protocol, the Court
may, without prejudice to the finality of its judgment as set out in sub-paragraph
(2) of the same Article, review its judgment under the conditions laid down in the
Rules of Court. Thus, Article 28(3) of the Protocol therefore makes the procedure
for review of the Court's judgments an exceptional one, subject to admissibility
requirements set out in Rule 78(1) and (2).
24. Rule 78(1) and (2) of the Rules provides as follows:
1. A party may, in the event of the discovery of a new fact or evidence, which
by its nature, has a decisive influence and which, when the judgment was
delivered, was unknown to the party and could not with due diligence have
been known to that party, request the Court, within a period of six months
after that party acquired knowledge of the fact (or evidence), apply to the
Court to revise that judgment. The Court shall not accept any request for
review of its judgment after five (5) years of the delivery of the same
2. The Application shall specify the judgment in respect of which review is
requested, contain information necessary to show that the conditions laid
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