Talk:List of International Court of Justice cases

Latest comment: 2 years ago by Wikidea in topic Worldlii links?

POV edit

This is a chronological list of significant cases brought to the International Court of Justice since its creation in 1946.

Without a reliable source to qualify the statement there is no way of knowing if the list consists of those which any contributer to the page has added as their own preferences, or if indeed it is a list of the most significant cases as quoted by an outside authority. --Philip Baird Shearer 18:15, 12 November 2006 (UTC)Reply

Agreed. Do you have any suggestions for rephrasing? 24.20.254.29 05:59, 27 April 2007 (UTC)Reply
Put them all in :-) --Philip Baird Shearer 17:52, 29 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

List cases, not events edit

I think the linking to the events is problematic here. All 138 cases are notable and linking to the events makes it not a red link (when it should be). I think it would be better to even make placeholder pages that also link to the events rather than to link to the events and not the cases. gren グレン 18:10, 12 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Generally this may be correct, but not always. Five years from the original post and Corfu Channel Case and Corfu Channel Incident are two separate articles. As it stands, the incident page is far more developed. While one may argue that the facts of the incident are the background of the case and the diplomatic responses are the aftermath, it may also be that there are aspects of the incident not really considered part of the case. Yet much of the material in the incident page can easily be in the case page. If a merger occurs, it may be better to just incorporate the case as a section in the incident page. I am not yet saying this should happen, but if it did, then a link to the incident page, or to the case section of the incident page would be appropriate.
On the other hand, as it currently stands, the Barcelona Traction page, purportedly about the company itself, is entirely dedicated to the case. The possible exception is more specific involvement of Juan March Ordinas, who has his own page. Again, I haven't reviewed it enough to take action myself at this time, but it appears that Barcelone Traction should be moved to Barcelona case. IMHO (talk) 18:27, 7 March 2013 (UTC)Reply

There are not 138 cases, there are more than 160 cases. A list of cases by country and UN organ involved may be found here: International Encyclopedia of Law International Court of Justice list of cases by country and UN organ79.157.194.221 (talk) 17:32, 10 October 2014 (UTC)Reply

Indian case on Mr Malek Basirahemad Abdullahmiya please details Arifahemad bashirahemad Malek (talk) 16:08, 10 December 2019 (UTC)Reply

Judgement or Judgment edit

The ICJ is not consistent with its spelling of Judg(e)ment. Their database uses judgment but different cases use different spellings which in recent years seem to be related to the English used by the country in front of the court.

But the first judg(e)ment http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/files/1/1569.pdf The first case (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland v. Albania) use "Judgment" so the cases are not consistent. (It was probably American spelling throughout until at some time it became politically correct to use the local spelling.

I suggest that we use in the title of the judg(e)ments whatever is used in the ICJ judgments but that for the rest of the text we use the American spelling as is used by the ICJ database. --Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 09:48, 23 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

Table edit

Draft of table, now implemented

This list cries out for a table. A working draft proposal is below.

General
List #
Contentious
or Advisory
Case Name Parties Date of Judgment or Opinion
1 Contentious Corfu Channel Case   United Kingdom v.   Albania 1949
4 Advisory Reparation for Injuries Suffered in the Service of the United Nations 11 April 1949
9 Advisory Competence of the General Assembly for the Admission of a State to the United Nations 3 March 1950
8 Advisory Interpretation of Peace Treaties with Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania 18 July 1950 Note: this date is for the final opinion, for the "second phase". An opinion addressing the "first phase" was issued on 30 March 1950.
7 Contentious Asylum Case   Colombia v.   Peru 20 November 1950
10 Advisory International Status of South West Africa 11 July 1950
13 Contentious Request for Interpretation of the Judgment of 20 November 1950 in the Asylum Case   Colombia v.   Peru 27 November 1950
12 Advisory Reservations to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide 28 May 1951
14 Contentious Haya de la Torre   Colombia v.   Peru 13 June 1951
5 Contentious Fisheries Case   United Kingdom v.   Norway 18 December 1951
16 Contentious Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.   United Kingdom v.   Iran 22 July 1952
15 Contentious Ambatielos Case   Greece v.   United Kingdom 19 May 1953
17 Contentious Minquiers and Ecrehos Case   France v.   United Kingdom 17 November 1953
11 Contentious Rights of Nationals of the United States of America in Morocco   France v.   United States 27 August 1952
18 Contentious Nottebohm Case   Liechtenstein v.   Guatemala 6 April 1955
19 Contentious Monetary Gold Removed from Rome in 1943   Italy v.   France,   United Kingdom,   United States 15 June 1954
21 Advisory Effect of Awards of Compensation Made by the United Nations Administrative Tribunal 13 July 1954
24 Advisory Voting Procedure on Questions relating to Reports and Petitions concerning the Territory of South West Africa 7 June 1955
31 Advisory Admissibility of Hearings of Petitioners by the Committee on South West Africa 1 June 1956
30 Advisory Judgements of the Administrative Tribunal of the ILO upon Complaints made against UNESCO 23 October 1956
Contentious Certain Norwegian Loans   France v.   Norway 6 July 1957
Contentious Interhandel Case   Switzerland v.   United States 24 October 1957
Contentious Right of Passage over Indian Territory   Portugal v.   India 12 April 1960 Note: judgment on preliminary objections on 26 November 1957
Contentious Application of the Convention of 1902 Governing the Guardianship of Infants   Netherlands v.   Sweden 28 November 1958
Contentious Aerial Incident of 27 July 1955   Israel v.   Bulgaria 26 May 1959
Contentious Sovereignty over Certain Frontier Land   Belgium v.   Netherlands 20 June 1959
43 Advisory Constitution of the Maritime Safety Committee of the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization 8 June 1960
Contentious Arbitral Award Made by the King of Spain on 23 December 1906   Honduras v.   Nicaragua 18 November 1960
Contentious Preah Vihear Temple   Cambodia v.   Thailand 15 June 1962
Advisory Certain Expenses of the United Nations 20 July 1962
Contentious South West Africa Case   Ethiopia v.   South Africa;   Liberia v.   South Africa 18 July 1966 Note: judgment on preliminary objections 21 December 1962
Contentious Northern Cameroons   Cambodia v.   United Kingdom 2 December 1963
50 Contentious Barcelona Traction, Light and Power Company, Limited   Belgium v.   Spain 5 February 1970 Note: judgment on preliminary objections 24 July 1964
Contentious North Sea Continental Shelf Case   West Germany v.   Denmark;   West Germany v.   Netherlands 20 February 1969
53 Advisory Legal Consequences for States of the Continued Presence of South Africa in Namibia (South West Africa) notwithstanding Security Council Resolution 276 21 June 1971
54 Contentious Appeal Relating to the Jurisdiction of the ICAO Council   India v.   Pakistan 18 August 1972
56 Contentious Fisheries Jurisdiction Case   United Kingdom v.   Iceland 25 July 1974
57 Advisory Application for Review of Judgement No. 158 of the United Nations Administrative Tribunal 12 July 1973
58 Contentious Nuclear Tests Case (Australia v. France)   Australia v.   France 20 December 1974
59 Contentious Nuclear Tests Case (New Zealand v. France)   New Zealand v.   France 20 December 1974
61 Advisory Western Sahara 16 October 1975
62 Contentious Aegean Sea Continental Shelf Case   Greece v.   Turkey 19 December 1978
64 Contentious United States Diplomatic and Consular Staff in Tehran   United States v.   Iran 24 May 1980
65 Advisory Interpretation of the Agreement of 25 March 1951 between the WHO and Egypt 20 December 1980
63 Contentious Continental Shelf (Tunisia/Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)   Tunisia v.   Libya 24 February 1982
66 Advisory Application for Review of Judgement No. 273 of the United Nations Administrative Tribunal 20 July 1982
68 Contentious Continental Shelf (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya/Malta)   Libya v.   Mali 3 June 1985
67 Contentious Delimitation of the Maritime Boundary in the Gulf of Maine Area   Canada v.   United States 12 October 1984
70 Contentious Military and Paramilitary Activities in and Against Nicaragua   Nicaragua v.   United States 27 June 1986
71 Contentious Application for Revision and Interpretation of the Judgment of 24 Februaiy 1982 in the Case concerning the Continental Shelf (Tunisia/Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)   Tunisia v.   Libya 10 December 1985
69 Contentious Frontier Dispute (Burkina Faso/Republic of Mali)   Burkina Faso v.   Mali 22 December 1986
72 Advisory Application for Review of Judgement No. 333 of the United Nations Administrative Tribunal 27 May 1987
77 Advisory Applicability of the Obligation to Arbitrate under Section 21 of the United Nations Headquarters Agreement of 26 June 1947 26 April 1988
76 Contentious Elettronica Sicula S.p.A. (ELSI)   United States v.   Italy 20 July 1989
Advisory Applicability of Article VI, Section 22, of the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations 15 December 1989
75 Contentious Land, Island and Maritime Frontier Dispute   El Salvador v.   Honduras
Contentious Maritime Delimitation and Territorial Questions between Qatar and Bahrain   Qatar v.   Bahrain
Contentious Passage through the Great Belt   Finland v.   Denmark
84 Contentious East Timor   Portugal v.   Australia 30 June 1995
80 Contentious Certain Phosphate Lands in Nauru   Nauru v.   Australia Note: judgment on preliminary objections 26 June 1992
75 Contentious Land, Island and Maritime Frontier Dispute   El Salvador v.   Honduras:  Nicaragua 11 September 1992)
78 Contentious Maritime Delimitation in the Area Between Greenland and Jan Mayen   Denmark v.   Norway 14 June 1993
83 Contentious Territorial Dispute (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya/Chad)   Libya v.   Chad 3 February 1994
97 Contentious Request for an Examination of the Situation in Accordance with Paragraph 63 of the Court's Judgment of 20 December 1974 in the Nuclear Tests   New Zealand v.   France Order of 22 September 1995
94 Contentious Land and Maritime Boundary Between Cameroon and Nigeria   Cameroon v.   Nigeria 15 March 1996
95 Advisory Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons 8 July 1996
93 Advisory Legality of the Use by a State of Nuclear Weapons in Armed Conflict 8 July 1996
92 Contentious Gabčíkovo-Nagymaros Project   Hungary v.   Slovenia 25 September 1997
88 Contentious Questions of Interpretation and Application of the 1971 Montreal Convention arising from the Aerial Incident at Lockerbie (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya v. United Kingdom)   Libya v.   United Kingdom Note: judgment on preliminary objections 27 February 1998
89 Contentious Questions of Interpretation and Application of the 1971 Montreal Convention arising from the Aerial Incident at Lockerbie (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya v. United States of America)   Libya v.   United States Note: judgment on preliminary objection 27 February 1998
99 Contentious Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (Paraguay v. United States of America)   Paraguay v.   United States Orders 9 April 1998 and 10 November 1998
94 Contentious Land and Maritime Boundary Between Cameroon and Nigeria   Cameroon v.   Nigeria:  Equatorial Guinea 10 October 2002 Note: judgment on preliminary objections 11 June 1998
96 Contentious Fisheries Jurisdiction (Spain v. Canada)   Spain v.   Canada 4 December 1988
104 Contentious Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (Germany v. United States of America)   Germany v.   United States Order 3 March 1999
100 Advisory Difference Relating to Immunity from Legal Process of a Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights 29 April 1999
105 Contentious Legality of Use of Force (Yugoslavia v. Belgium)   Yugoslavia v.   Belgium Note: judgment on preliminary objections 15 December 2004; Order 2 June 1999
107 Contentious Legality of Use of Force (Yugoslavia v. France)   Yugoslavia v.   France Note: judgment on preliminary objections 15 December 2004; Order 2 June 1999
108 Contentious Legality of Use of Force (Yugoslavia v. Germany)   Yugoslavia v.   Germany Note: judgment on preliminary objections 15 December 2004; Order 2 June 1999
109 Contentious Legality of Use of Force (Yugoslavia v. Italy)   Yugoslavia v.   Italy Note: judgment on preliminary objections 15 December 2004; Order 2 June 1999
110 Contentious Legality of Use of Force (Yugoslavia v. Netherlands   Yugoslavia v.   Netherlands Note: judgment on preliminary objections 15 December 2004; Order 2 June 1999
111 Contentious Legality of Use of Force (Yugoslavia v. Portugal)   Yugoslavia v.   Portugal Note: judgment on preliminary objections 15 December 2004; Order 2 June 1999
112 Contentious Legality of Use of Force (Yugoslavia v. Spain)   Yugoslavia v.   Spain Note: judgment on preliminary objections 15 December 2004; Order 2 June 1999
113 Contentious Legality of Use of Force (Yugoslavia v. United Kingdom)   Yugoslavia v.   United Kingdom Note: judgment on preliminary objections 15 December 2004; Order 2 June 1999
114 Contentious Legality of Use of Force (Yugoslavia v. United States of America)   Yugoslavia v.   United States Order 2 June 1999
Contentious Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide   Croatia v.   Serbia 2 July 1999
98 Contentious Kasikili/Sedudu Island   Botswana v.   Namibia 13 December 1999
119 Contentious Aerial Incident of 10 August 1999   Pakistan v.   India Note: judgment on jurisdiction 21 June 2000
116 Contentious Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo v. Uganda)   Democratic Republic of the Congo v.   Uganda Order 1 July 2000
121 Contentious Arrest Warrant of 11 April 2000   Democratic Republic of the Congo v.   Belgium 14 February 2002 Note: order 8 December 2013
115 Contentious Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo v. Burundi)   Democratic Republic of the Congo v.   Burundi Order 30 January 2001
117 Contentious Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo v. Rwanda)   Democratic Republic of the Congo v.   Rwanda Order 30 January 2001
102 Contentious Sovereignty over Pulau Ligitan and Pulau Sipadan   India v.   Malaysia 17 December 2002 Note: judgment on Application for Permission to Intervene 23 October 2001
122 Contentious Application for the Revision of the Judgment of 11 July 1996 in the Case concerning Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide   Bosnia and Herzegovina v.   Yugoslavia Note: judgment on preliminary objections 3 February 2003
128 Contentious Avena and Other Mexican Nationals   Mexico v.   United States 31 March 2004 Note: order 5 February 2003
129 Contentious Certain Criminal Proceedings in France   Republic of the Congo v.   France 17 June 2003
90 Contentious Oil Platforms   Iran v.   United States 6 November 2003
127 Contentious Application for Revision of the Judgment of 11 September 1992 in the Case concerning the Land, Island And Maritime Frontier Dispute (El Salvador/Honduras: Nicaragua Intervening)   El Salvador v.   Honduras 18 December 2003
131 Advisory Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory 7 July 2004
123 Contentious Certain Property (Liechenstein v. Germany)   Liechtenstein v.   Germany Note: judgment on preliminary objections 10 February 2005
125 Contentious Frontier Dispute (Benin/Niger)   Benin v.   Niger 12 July 2005
126 Contentious Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo (New Application: 2002) (Democratic Republic of the Congo v. Rwanda)   Democratic Republic of the Congo v.   Rwanda 3 February 2006
Contentious Status vis-à-vis the Host State of a Diplomatic Envoy to the United Nations   Dominica v.   Switzerland
Contentious Territorial and Maritime Dispute between Nicaragua and Honduras in the Caribbean Sea   Nicaragua v.   Honduras
91 Contentious Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Serbia and Montenegro)   Bosnia and Herzegovina v.   Serbia and Montenegro 26 February 2007
130 Contentious Sovereignty over Pedra Branca/Pulau Batu Puteh, Middle Rocks and South Ledge   Malaysia v.   Singapore 23 May 2008
Advisory International Court of Justice advisory opinion on Kosovo's declaration of independence
Contentious Certain Questions of Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters   Djibouti v.   France 4 June 2008
Contentious Request for Interpretation of the Judgment of 31 March 2004 in the Case concerning Avena and Other Mexican Nationals   Mexico v.   United States
Contentious Dispute regarding Navigational and Related Rights   Costa Rica v.   Nicaragua 13 July 2009
Contentious Maritime Delimitation in the Black Sea   Romania v.   Ukraine 3 February 2009
Contentious Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay   Uruguay v.   Argentina 20 April 2010
Contentious Burkina Faso–Niger frontier dispute case   Burkina Faso v.   Niger 16 April 2013
Contentious Certain questions concerning diplomatic relations   Honduras v.   Brazil
Contentious Certain Criminal Proceedings in France   Democratic Republic of the Congo v.   France
Contentious Application of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination   Georgia v.   Russia
Contentious Jurisdiction and Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters   Belgium v.   Switzerland
Contentious Application of the Interim Accord of 13 September 1995 v.   Greece
Contentious Jurisdictional Immunities of the State   Germany v.   Italy:   Greece 3 February 2012
Contentious Ahmadou Sadio Diallo   Guinea v.   Democratic Republic of the Congo
Contentious Questions relating to the Obligation to Prosecute or Extradite   Belgium v.   Senegal
Contentious Territorial and Maritime Dispute (Nicaragua v. Colombia)   Nicaragua v.   Colombia
Contentious Maritime Dispute (Peru v. Chile)   Peru v.   Chile
Contentious Whaling in the Antarctic   Australia v.   Japan:   New Zealand
Contentious Seizure of Certain Documents and Data   Timor-Leste v.   Australia
49 Advisory Certain Expenses of the United Nations (Article 17, paragraph 2, of the Charter) 20 July 1962
OK, I have moved substantially all of the info from the original page onto this table, which I think is a lot easier to read. I am going to replace the list with this table.Erudy (talk) 19:37, 10 February 2014 (UTC)Reply

Sorting by date columns edit

The non standardization of dates in the dates columns makes it impossible to use the sort feature. due to technical issues (lexical ltr sorting) I propose changing all dates into a single format: YYYY-MM-DD free text

for example Judgment on Jurisdiction 4 December 1998 would be changed to 1998-12-04 Judgment on Jurisdiction

of course the format may change (use spaces instead of dashes) but the easiest solution is numerical 4 digit year, 2 digit month (with possible leading zeros, 2 digits day-of month (with possible leading zeros). 84.108.61.204 (talk) 06:50, 25 April 2014 (UTC)Reply

This is definitely a valid criticism. I believe the solution is to use Template:Dts, which would allow the use of "normal" looking dates, but make them sortable in the table. Unfortunately, this will take a bunch of work. This table already needs a lot of work in terms of bare completion, so it might take a while to get this improvement. You can help!Erudy (talk) 01:52, 3 July 2014 (UTC)Reply

Ukraine sues Russia edit

What about this case - [1] ? 217.76.1.22 (talk) 13:40, 9 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

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User:22merlin added this tag in July 2018. The page was quite outdated. Gradually since June, I updated it so the recent information is all current - hence I removed the tag. OK? (There is still a problem with a batch of older cases that do not list a disposition.) Sullidav (talk) 00:01, 6 September 2019 (UTC)Reply

Recent edits, and spelling edit

In the last couple days somebody has combined rows that have the same information on parallel cases. I don't care about the country columns, but I think this is a bad idea for the last 3 columns - they are about separate cases with separate case numbers and different dockets and different decisions (though as related companion cases that were filed and often resolved on the same dates, and with their separate decisions often largely repeating the same language). The ICJ does not combine related cases into one, as some national courts (eg, the US Supreme Court) do. As an example, the combined last 3 columns for cases 158/159/160 should be split back up into 3 rows. But as a minimal fix if they are kept the same, the last column should plural-ize "Judg[]ment" to "Judgments" because as it now is, this box is about 3 cases and 3 judgments.

Also this page's spelling of "Judgment" or "Judgement" should track the Court's spelling, which I believe (from a quick spot-check of 18 of them, dated 1963-2016) is consistently the better, no-e version. [Addendum: I saw this issue was discussed above in 2008, but current usage does not track the Court's, as in those cases 158, 159, & 160.] Sullidav (talk) 22:06, 29 January 2020 (UTC)Reply

Worldlii links? edit

Would someone be so good as to add the Worldlii links in a new column to this? Or make a start? I would try myself, but I'm often unclear about which document is the final judgment, and would very much appreciate the help (or guidance here, and I can do it if explained). Wikidea 14:20, 3 January 2022 (UTC)Reply