The Commonwealth and the international court of justice

Autor:	Nicholas A. Sims
Rok vydání:	2000
Předmět:	Territorial dispute International court Jurisdiction media_common.quotation_subject Law Geography Planning and Development Reservation Doctrine Commonwealth Sociology Settlement (litigation) Economic Justice media_common
Zdroj:	The Round Table. 89:205-230
ISSN:	1474-029X 0035-8533
DOI:	10.1080/750459435
Popis:	When the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in 1999 determined the Botswana‐ Namibia boundary and found that the disputed Kasikili/Sedudu Island was part of Botswana, it was the first time that the ICJ had adjudicated an intra-Commonwealth territorial dispute. The case was also the first dispute of any kind brought to the ICJ by two Commonwealth members ‘arm in arm’, for peaceful settlement. The article summarizes the very few intra-Commonwealth cases which have gone to the ICJ and enquires why they are so few. It traces the history of the ‘Commonwealth reservation’ by which some states have excluded intra-Commonwealth disputes from their acceptance of ICJ jurisdiction in advance (the Optional Clause), and the significance of inter se (the doctrine that intra-Commonwealth relations were not of a fully international character) with which the ‘Commonwealth reservation’ was associated in its 1929 origin but which it has long outlived, although arguably in decline. Reluctance to use the ICJ may have other e...
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