Commissi on on Human and Peoples' R1ghts (pnragrap h 33); the Court's Jurisdictio n pursuant lo the ProLocol (paragrap hs 34 to 35); ond lastly, U1c exhaustio n of local remedies (paragrap hs 37 to 40), which ts once agam relating to the admJs~1bi lity of the ~:~pplication. ln domg so. th e Court m1xed up the constdera tton ol tht• junsdktio n of Lhe Court with thal of l11c adm•ssibLiity of the apphc~Hion. This mixed considera tion poses a problem and creates confuswn between two st·pru ate legal issues. 3. Whereas indeed, jurisdtctio n conct:ms the Court, admissibil ity conct.ms Lh~ applicalzo n, and naturally, 1t is nec;essary Lo lrt-al these two issues sepnratdy wirhoul mixing them. On the order of commJcra llon of Lhese issues tl 1s clear from the gcnerul past practice of the: Court, from logic and common sense, as well as from Rule 39 of the Rules of Court, that Lhe Court has to first determme whr.lher or not il has jumsd1ctio n before considerin g t..he adm1ssibt l1ty of t.he appllcauo nl . 4. In our opinton, in the instant case, t:hc Court ought to havc first considered separatell } a11 issues rclat.ing to its JUrisd1ct ion (I.JoU1 the pn liminary objection and its JUnsd icl.Jon pursuant. to the Protocol), and then alltssues relating to Lhc admissibility of the applicaLio n (botb the prelim mary objection and the question of ex.ha us I ion of local remedies) . The judgment would only have been clearer2 • n. Determin ing the ratione t emports jurisdicti on of the Court 5. On the jurisdiclio n of the Court, the Responde nt Stflte bad raised an objectton on the ratione temporis junsciicUo n of the Court, drawn from the fact that the alleged violation of arudcs 7 and 15 of Lhe Charter occurred before the sepurc'lli opmron of Judge Gerurd Nl\ ungcko, anntxed to the JUdgment of 14 .June 2013 tn t ht• mauer o f Tangr111yikn !Jmu Socrely & at. '' The United Rt-pubfu of Tanzarun, paragraphs 2 to 7 . In the matter or Tanqanwk.cr l.ctt41 SocrCl!f c'h al. II T/rp llmterl RPpllblic of Tan.za run Ctlcd ll1 the preceding p.1rngraph thC' Court had LrratecJ l>oth l:iS\le's dJsuncth:, except that m our optmon. I For fun her delaih it undul.> revcr!Jcd lh• ~ce I he •rder of ttt•(llment , lhrdtmt. 2

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