Australia v Japan: ICJ Judgment

The International Court of Justice (ICJ), principal judicial organ of the UN delivers its Judgment in the Whaling Case (Australia v Japan) on 31 March 2014 at 10 am at the Peace Palace, seat of the Court.

La Cour internationale de Justice (CIJ), organe judiciaire principal des Nations Unies, rend rend son arrêt en l’affaire de la Chasse à la baleine (Australie c Japon), le lundi 31 mars 2014, au Palais de la Paix, à La Haye.



Programme:

Session starts on Monday 31 March 2014 at 10 am CET.

La séance débute le lundi 31 mars 2014 à 10 heures CET.



Agents:

L’agent de l’Australie est M. Bill Campbell/The Agent of Australia is Mr. Bill Campbell.

L’agent du Japon est M. Koji Tsuruoka/The Agent of Japan is Mr. Koji Tsuruoka.

L’agent de la Nouvelle-Zélande est Mme Penelope Ridings/The Agent of New Zealand is Dr. Penelope Ridings.



Background:



Click here to view the complete ICJ file of the Case: http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/index.php?p1=3&p2=1&code=&case=148&k=64&lang=en

Cliquer ici pour consulter le dossier CIJ complet de l’affaire: http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/index.php?p1=3&p2=1&code=&case=148&k=64&lang=fr



The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. It was established by the United Nations Charter in June 1945 and began its activities in April 1946. The seat of the Court is at the Peace Palace in The Hague (Netherlands). Of the six principal organs of the United Nations, it is the only one not located in New York. The Court has a twofold role: first, to settle, in accordance with international law, legal disputes submitted to it by States (its judgments have binding force and are without appeal for the parties concerned); and, second, to give advisory opinions on legal questions referred to it by duly authorized United Nations organs and agencies of the system. The Court is composed of 15 judges elected for a nine-year term by the General Assembly and the Security Council of the United Nations. Independent of the United Nations Secretariat, it is assisted by a Registry, its own international secretariat, whose activities are both judicial and diplomatic, as well as administrative. The official languages of the Court are French and English. Also known as the “World Court”, it is the only court of a universal character with general jurisdiction.

The ICJ, a court open only to States for contentious proceedings, and to certain organs and institutions of the United Nations system for advisory proceedings, should not be confused with the other mostly criminal judicial institutions based in The Hague and adjacent areas, such as the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY, an ad hoc court created by the Security Council), the International Criminal Court (ICC, the first permanent international criminal court, established by treaty, which does not belong to the United Nations system), the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL, an independent judicial body composed of Lebanese and international judges, which is not a United Nations tribunal and does not form part of the Lebanese judicial system), or the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA, an independent institution which assists in the establishment of arbitral tribunals and facilitates their work, in accordance with the Hague Convention of 1899).

