maintained that the interim measures sought cannot be granted unless the following three cumulative conditions are met: - The instrument complained of must affect the legal constituency of the Applicant; - The substantive application must appear grounded prima facie; - There must be a serious and irreparable imminence of danger. 14. For these reasons, and for the fact that one was only at a preliminary inquiry stage, which may end inquiry or else ina subsequent one-month in a definitive discontinuation of the institution of a judicial procedure after a house arrest, the Defendant State considered that nothing justifies the request for interim measures. Moreover, the Defendant State emphasised that the Applicants are intending to ask the Court to meddle courts, in matters and to already interfere dealt with the with by procedure decisions of the domestic of a preliminary inquiry already begun and following its normal course in a domestic court; and that action by the Applicants cannot succeed. At this il of the procedure, | 15. After hearing the Parties, and considering that the request for interim measures as filed and the orders sought by the Applicants were related, and in, accordance with Article Court, which foresees and 87(5) of the Rules of Procedure of the provides for that situation, the Court joined the proceedings on the preliminary procedure to that on the merits of the case, so as to adjudicate on the issues therein and deliver one and a single judgment. 16. Consequently, the Court decided to hear the Parties on the merits of the case.