against the African Union, which makes it compliant with the requirement of
Rule 50(2)(c) of the Rules.
35. The Court further considers that the Application meets the requirements of
Rule 50(2)(d) of the Rules, since it is not based on news disseminated
exclusively through the mass media, but rather on judicial decisions and
legislative and regulatory provisions of the Respondent State.
36. With regard to the requirement of Rule 50(2)(e) of the Rules on the
exhaustion of local remedies, the Court notes that, as it emerges from the
record, the Applicants seized the Administrative Section of the Supreme
Court to “regularize their administrative situation by registering them on the
list of trainee inspectors or trainee police superintendents due to undergo
training”. This referral and the subsequent proceedings were the subject of
various Supreme Court decisions.
37. The Court observes that the grievances raised in the present Application
relate to issues of law that have been the subject of the proceedings initiated
by the Applicants before the Respondent State’s Supreme Court, which
ruled thereon. The Court underscores that under Articles 1105 and 1116 of
the Organic Law of 23 September 2016 on the organization and functioning
of the Supreme Court, decisions handed down by the said court are not
subject to appeal. Consequently, the Court considers that local remedies
were exhausted.
38. The Court therefore holds that the Application meets the requirement of
Rule 50(2)(e) of the Rules.
5 Article 110: The administrative division is the supreme judge of all decisions handed down by lower
administrative jurisdictions, as well as of decisions handed down in the final instance by administrative
bodies with jurisdictional status.
6 Article 111: The administrative section is competent to hear, in the first and last instance, appeals on
grounds of ultra vires against decrees, ministerial or inter-ministerial orders and acts of national or
independent administrative authorities.
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