On October 16, the ICJ delivered its verdict.

Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons was an advisory opinion delivered by the International Court of Justice ( ICJ ) on 8 July 1996.

The mandatory nature of such resolutions was upheld by the International Court of Justice ( ICJ ) in its advisory opinion on Namibia.

In the case the ICJ found that its own temporary court orders were legally binding and that the rights contained in the convention could not be denied by the application of domestic legal procedures.

Germany then modified its complaint in the case before the ICJ, alleging furthermore that the U. S. violated international law by failing to implement the provisional measures.

The ICJ held that the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations of 24 April 1963 ( Vienna Convention ) granted rights to individuals on the basis of its plain meaning, and that domestic laws could not limit the rights of the accused under the convention, but only specify the means by which those rights were to be exercised.

The ICJ also found that its own provisional measures were legally binding.

The United States refused to participate in the proceedings after the Court rejected its argument that the ICJ lacked jurisdiction to hear the case.

The United Nations became involved after Morocco asked for an opinion on the legality of its demands from the International Court of Justice ( ICJ ), and the UN also sent a visiting mission to examine the wishes of the population.

In reviewing the International Court of Justice ( ICJ ) Bosnian Genocide Case in the judgement of Jorgic v. Germany on July 12, 2007 the European Court of Human Rights quoted from the ICJ ruling on the Bosnian Genocide Case to draw a distinction between ethnic cleansing and genocide. The term ' ethnic cleansing ' has frequently been employed to refer to the events in Bosnia and Herzegovina which are the subject of this case ... General Assembly resolution 47 / 121 referred in its Preamble to ' the abhorrent policy of ' ethnic cleansing ', which is a form of genocide ', as being carried on in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

UNPO chose for its founding headquarters in 1991 The Hague in the Netherlands because the city aimed at becoming the International City of Peace and Justice and hosts internaitonal courts like the ICJ and ICC.

The initial request for an advisory opinion by the ICJ was presented by the World Health Organization ( WHO ) on 3 September 1993, but the ICJ did not render an opinion on this request because the WHO was ultra vires, or acting outside its legal capacity.

This asked the ICJ urgently to render its advisory opinion on the following question:

On 8 July 1996, nearly eight months after the close of the oral phase, the ICJ rendered its Opinion.

The ICJ considered the historical evidence, and in its Judgment of 17 November 1953 awarded the islands to Jersey.

Nicaragua, which has not resolved its maritime borders with Honduras or Colombia, disputed Honduras ' legal right to hand over these areas before the ICJ.

MacDermot rescued the ICJ from its association with the CIA, to the forefront of the international human rights movement.

The ICJ is active in promoting human rights and the rule of law, whether at the international level ( e. g. the UN ), regionally ( e. g. the EU and Council of Europe ), or domestically through the activities of its national sections ( e. g. JUSTICE in the UK ).

He established a systematic legal aid service for all courts, set up the Australian Law Reform Commission ( and appointed Michael Kirby to be its inaugural chairman ), the Australian Institute of Criminology and took the French Government to the International Court of Justice ( ICJ ) to protest against its nuclear tests in the Pacific.

The Danish financial watchdog Danwatch has also placed Elbit on its ethical blacklist, and one of Denmark's largest pension fund administrators PKA Ltd announced it will no longer consider investing in Elbit, stating " The ICJ stated that the barrier only serves military purposes and violates Palestinian human rights.

Morocco intended to vindicate its claims by demanding a verdict from the International Court of Justice ( ICJ ), which was issued on Oct. 16, 1975.

In its presentation to the ICJ, the Moroccan side also mentioned the levy of taxes as a further instance of the exercise of sovereignty.

The ICJ judgment was backed up by the United Nations, whose charter potentially allowed sanctions or even the use of force to enforce the court's ruling.

In 1984, the Sandinista government filed a suit in the International Court of Justice ( ICJ ) against the United States ( Nicaragua v. United States ), which resulted in a 1986 judgment against the United States.

The U. S. blocked enforcement of the ICJ judgment by the United Nations Security Council and thereby prevented Nicaragua from obtaining any actual compensation.

Under the special agreement, also known as the compromise that was signed in December 2008 by Belize and Guatemala it was agreed that if the people of both nations approved, by way of a simultaneous referendum on the same day, that the dispute would proceed to the ICJ.

* Belize / Guatemala ICJ Compromis Signed at OAS in Washington, D. C. on 8 December 2008 and Compromis and Videos and U. S. Congratulations and U. K. Congratulations and Photographs and Compromis for Christmas of 8 December 2008 and Belize Leading Counsel of 19 December 2008

The two countries formally signed a peace treaty on October 30, 1980, which put the border dispute before the International Court of Justice ( ICJ ).

Often enormously complicated matters, ICJ cases ( of which there have been less than 150 since the court was created from the Permanent Court of International Justice in 1945 ) can stretch on for years and generally involve thousands of pages of pleadings, evidence, and the world's leading specialist public international lawyers.

Decisions made through other means of arbitration may be binding or non-binding depending on the nature of the arbitration agreement, whereas decisions resulting from contentious cases argued before the ICJ are always binding on the involved states.

The Aouzou dispute was concluded for good on 3 February 1994, when the judges of the ICJ by a majority of 16 to 1 decided that the Aouzou Strip belonged to Chad.

The LaGrand case was a legal action heard before the International Court of Justice ( ICJ ) which concerned the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.

The Arizona clemency board recommended a stay to the governor, on the basis of the pending ICJ case ; but the governor of Arizona ignored the recommendation and Walter LaGrand was executed on March 3, 1999.

Both parties however, agreed to ICJ arbitration on the island dispute.

In 2001 the two parties chose to have the ICJ decide on the matter once and for all.

* ICJ decision on Maritime Delimitation and Territorial Questions between Qatar and Bahrain ( Qatar v. Bahrain )

In 1971, acting on a request for an advisory opinion from the United Nations Security Council, the ICJ ruled that the continued presence of South Africa in Namibia was illegal and that South Africa was under an obligation to withdraw from Namibia immediately.

The ICJ fixed 10 June 1994 as the time limit for written submissions, but after receiving many written and oral submissions, later extended this date to 20 September 1994.

He also served as the President of the ICJ between 1991 and 1994 and resigned from the Court on July 10, 1995.

* U. S. Agent Harold H. Koh during Kosovo Oral Hearings, ICJ President Hisashi Owada, 1 – 11 December 2009 and Agent Koh's Statement of December 8, 2009, at pp. 22 – 39 and Overview of International Court of Justice advisory opinion on Kosovo's declaration of independence and USA-Russia Clash in the ICJ over Kosovo's Independence of December 10, 2009 and December 9, 2009 and UN World Court Ends Public Hearings of December 11, 2009 and ICJ Kosovo Advisory Opinion Rules Kosovo's Independence Legal of July 22, 2010 and Legal Adviser Koh briefs on ICJ Kosovo Opinion of July 22, 2010 and Kosovo Did Not Violate International Law and ASIL Insight on Kosovo Advisory Opinion of August 17, 2010 and ICJ Kosovo Independence Ruling Watched Around the World of August 25, 2010

The October 12, 1984, ICJ ruling, Delimitation of the Maritime Boundary in the Gulf of Maine Area ( Canada / United States of America ), has since highlighted a gap in the maritime boundary for several dozen kilometres between the current end of the International Boundary and the 1984 Gulf of Maine boundary starting point.

ICJ President Hisashi Owada's Lecture on The Encounter of Japan with the Community of Civilized Nations at newly launched in October 2008 UN Audiovisual Library of International Law and UN-Law

Complicating matters, a UN visiting mission had concluded on October 15, the day before the ICJ verdict was released, that Sahrawi support for independence was " overwhelming ".

Shi Jiuyong ( Traditional Chinese: 史久鏞, Simplified Chinese: 史久镛 ) ( born 9 October 1926, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China ) is a former judge at the International Court of Justice ( ICJ ).