Archivo de Etiquetas: Advisory Opinion

APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE VI, SECTION 22, OF THE CONVENTION ON THE PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES OF THE UNITED NATIONS – 15 December 1989 Competence of the Court to give opinion requested — Article 96, paragraph 2, of United Nations Charter — Relevance of lack of consent of State concerned — Opinion …

OPINIONS OF THE LORDS OF APPEAL FOR JUDGMENT IN THE CAUSE R (on the application of Al-Jedda) (FC) (Appellant) v Secretary of State for Defence (Respondent) Appellate Committee Lord Bingham of Cornhill Lord Rodger of Earlsferry Baroness Hale of Richmond Lord Carswell Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood Counsel Appellants: Keir Starmer …

COURT (GRAND CHAMBER) CASE OF AKDIVAR AND OTHERS v. TURKEY (Application no. 21893/93) JUDGMENT STRASBOURG 16 September 1996 In the case of Akdivar and Others v. Turkey 1, The European Court of Human Rights, sitting, pursuant to Rule 51 of Rules of Court A 2, as a Grand Chamber composed …

Case concerning the Air Service Agreement of 27 March 1946 between the United States of America and France Decision of 9 December 1978 Characterization of questions of facts and issues of law—Application of the rule of exhaus­tion of local remedies in cases of diplomatic protection distinguished from application of the …

INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE YEAR 1978 19 December 1978 AEGEAN SEA CONTINENTAL SHELF CASE (GREECE v. TURKEY) JURISDICTION OF THE COURT Pursuit of negotiations during judicial proceedings no impediment to exercise of jurisdiction—Existence of legal dispute. Jurisdiction of the Court—Question of applicability of 1928 General Act for Pacific Settlement of …

SERIES B, No. 7. September 15th, 1923 COLLECTION OF ADVISORY OPINIONS ACQUISITION OF POLISH NATIONALITY. PERMANENT COURT OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE. THIRD SESSION Present: MM. Loder, President, Weiss, Vice-President, Lord Finlay, MM. Nyholm, de Bustamante, Altamira,  Judges, Oda, Anzilotti, Huber, M Wang, Deputy- Judge. ADVISORY OPINION No. 7. On July 7th, …

INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE YEAR 1992 26 June 1992 CASE CONCERNING CERTAIN PHOSPHATE LANDS IN NAURU (NAURU v. AUSTRALIA) PRELIMINARY OBJECTIONS Jurisdiction of the Court and admissibility. Declaration of acceptance of compulsory jurisdiction excluding “any dispute in regard to which the Parties thereto have agreed or shall agree to have …

5 DECEMBER 2011 JUDGMENT APPLICATION OF THE INTERIM ACCORD OF 13 SEPTEMBER 1995 (THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA v. GREECE) Chronology of the procedure I. Introduction Jurisdiction of the Court and admissibility of the Application 23-61 Whether the dispute is excluded from the Court’s jurisdiction under the terms of …

The Contribution of the International Court of Justice and the Law of the Use of Force At the end of October,  I had the pleasure of spending a few days at the UN in New York where I was invited to speak to the annual meeting of the Legal Advisers of Foreign Ministers …

Kenya Invades Somalia Invoking the Right of Self-Defence Vidan Hadzi-Vidanovic is a doctoral candidate at the University of Nottingham School of Law. At a press conference held in Nairobi on 15 October 2011, the Kenyan ministers of defence and interior announced that Kenyan security forces will engage in military operations …

The Palmer Report on the Mavi Marmara Incident and the Legality of Israel’s Blockade of the Gaza StripOverall, the Palmer Report is of high quality and merits close attention. I would strongly urge those interested to read, at the least, the very concise summary of its findings at pages 1-6, …

The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea Gets BusierLast summer, I wrote a piece on this blog noting that the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), which had been underutilised for some years, was finally getting some substative cases to decide. Although ITLOS had decided a number of cases …