mahesh
03-01-2010, 07:09 AM
The International Court of Justice normally mentioned to as the World Court or ICJ is the prime judicial part of the United Nations. It is founded in the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands. Its major purposes are to resolve legal arguments submitted to it by states and to give advisory attitudes on lawful inquiries submitted to it by duly authorized worldwide organizations, bureaus, and the UN General Assembly. The ICJ should not be mistaken with the International Criminal Court, which furthermore possibly has "global" jurisdiction.
Established in 1945 by the UN Charter, the Court started work in 1946 as the successor to the Permanent Court of International Justice. The Statute of the International Court of Justice, alike to that of its predecessor, is the major legal article constituting and regulating the Court.
The Court's workload is distinguished by a broad variety of judicial activity. The ICJ has dealt with somewhat couple of cases in its history, but there has apparently been an expanded desiredness to use the Court since the 1980s, particularly amidst developing countries. The United States withdrew itself from compulsory jurisdiction in 1986, and so acknowledges the court's jurisdiction only on a case-to-case basis. Chapter XIV of the United Nations Charter authorizes the UN Security Council to enforce World Court rulings, but such enforcement is subject to the veto power of the five permanent constituents of the Council. Presently there are twelve cases on the World Court's docket.
The ICJ is of fifteen judges voted into agency for a nine year period by the UN General Assembly and the UN Security Council from a list of individuals nominated by the nationwide assemblies in the Permanent Court of Arbitration. The election method is set out in Articles 4-12 of the ICJ statute. Judges assist for nine year term and may be re-elected for up to two further terms. Elections are held every three years, with one-third of the judges retiring (and probably standing for re-election) each time, in order to double-check the continuity inside the court.
Should a judge die in office, the perform has usually been to vote into agency a judge of the identical nationality to complete the term. No two may be nationals of the identical country. According to Article 9, the members of the Court is presumed to comprise the "main types of civilization and of the primary lawful schemes of the world". Essentially, this has intended common law, civil law and socialist law (now post-communist law). Since the 1960s four of the five permanent constituents of the Security Council (France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States) have habitually had a judge on the Court. The exclusion was China (the Republic of China until 1971, the People's Republic of China from 1971 onwards), which did not have a judge on the Court from 1967-1985, because it did not put ahead a candidate. The rule on a geopolitical composition of the bench lives regardless of the fact that there is no provision for it in the Statute of the ICJ.
Established in 1945 by the UN Charter, the Court started work in 1946 as the successor to the Permanent Court of International Justice. The Statute of the International Court of Justice, alike to that of its predecessor, is the major legal article constituting and regulating the Court.
The Court's workload is distinguished by a broad variety of judicial activity. The ICJ has dealt with somewhat couple of cases in its history, but there has apparently been an expanded desiredness to use the Court since the 1980s, particularly amidst developing countries. The United States withdrew itself from compulsory jurisdiction in 1986, and so acknowledges the court's jurisdiction only on a case-to-case basis. Chapter XIV of the United Nations Charter authorizes the UN Security Council to enforce World Court rulings, but such enforcement is subject to the veto power of the five permanent constituents of the Council. Presently there are twelve cases on the World Court's docket.
The ICJ is of fifteen judges voted into agency for a nine year period by the UN General Assembly and the UN Security Council from a list of individuals nominated by the nationwide assemblies in the Permanent Court of Arbitration. The election method is set out in Articles 4-12 of the ICJ statute. Judges assist for nine year term and may be re-elected for up to two further terms. Elections are held every three years, with one-third of the judges retiring (and probably standing for re-election) each time, in order to double-check the continuity inside the court.
Should a judge die in office, the perform has usually been to vote into agency a judge of the identical nationality to complete the term. No two may be nationals of the identical country. According to Article 9, the members of the Court is presumed to comprise the "main types of civilization and of the primary lawful schemes of the world". Essentially, this has intended common law, civil law and socialist law (now post-communist law). Since the 1960s four of the five permanent constituents of the Security Council (France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States) have habitually had a judge on the Court. The exclusion was China (the Republic of China until 1971, the People's Republic of China from 1971 onwards), which did not have a judge on the Court from 1967-1985, because it did not put ahead a candidate. The rule on a geopolitical composition of the bench lives regardless of the fact that there is no provision for it in the Statute of the ICJ.