tf'~ ACHPR C:~ ~ ( ,Jnn~ African Commission on Human and Peoples· Rights (v) (vi) H,man Rights o"' Collective Responsibility Failing to adjudicate the additional points and referencing them in the judgment; Failing to have requested the record before the SCA before making its judgment as the main Complainants kindly have requested it to do; Failing to provide adequate reasons for its judgment. 36 60. It is alleged that by barring the 2nd Complainant to represent the 1st Complainant; by rejecting the 2nd Complainant's application for legal representation in High Court Case Number 31884/2015; by joining the 1st Complainant to the financial obligations of the 2nd Complainant in the proceedings before the High Court in Case Number 31884/2015, and by the Supreme Court and Constitutional Court's dismissal of the application of the Leave to appeal the High Court's decision in Case Number 31884/2015, the Respondent State through their judiciary treated the Complainants differently because they were self-actors in violation of their rights to freedom of discrimination enshrined in Article 2, equality enshrined in Article 3 of and to independence of the courts under Article 19.37 The Complainants submit that the Courts failed to recognize that they were self-actors and therefore ought to have been exempted from what they believe to have been overly technical decisions from the Courts of the Respondent State. 38 61. The First Complainant submits that he was "treated disrespectfully by the courts which directly affected his dignity." 62. If is the contention of the Complainants that by denying the 2nd Complainant to be represent the 1st Complainant and joining the former to the latter's obligation to pay legal costs, the courts denied their right to be heard in violation of Article 7 of the CharteL39 They also submit that the decision by the Supreme Court of Appeal and the Constitutional Court to dismiss their application for leave to appeal without reasons (in their opinion) instead of adjudicating the Constitutional Issue which they claim to have been raising, also violated their right to be heard under Article 7. 40 63. The Complainants aver that their rights to information in Article 9 of the Charter were violated when the SCA and Constitutional Courts of the Respondent State did not provide reasons or provided otherwise insufficient 36 Complainants' Submissions (2022) Para 21 37 Complainants' Observations on Admissibility and Merits ( 2022) 15-16, 19-20 38 Complainants' Observations on Admissibi lity and Merits (2022) plO, para 2 39 Complainant's Observations on Admissibility and Merits (2022) para 45 an 40 Complainant's Observations on Admissibility and Merits (2022) para 21 Bl P age ""~'""' African{11t,'1 Union\.!i The African Commission o 31 Bijilo Annex l~~~~~ ts ict, ambia Phone : (220) 230 4361 Fax: (220) 441 05 04 Fm::.il· ~ 11- h ;:1ni1 iltn):::.frir.~-• in inn nrn