Spouses may go to court seeking the resolution of a dispute .

Decides to afford the Parties the opportunity to submit to the Court the whole of the dispute

A fair outcome by the court will end the sole remaining border issue which compromises our bilateral relations.

The ICJ is expected to make a ruling on the dispute in mid 2013.

If the parents cannot reach agreement on raising the child after the divorce, the dispute is settled in court.

Before reporting the different viewpoints, a brief background on the legal implications of the dispute and sentences is necessary.

(f) Parties to the dispute with the same interest shall appoint one member of the tribunal jointly and by agreement.

22. During the period under review the Court was seized of the contentious case concerning the Land and Maritime Boundary between Cameroon and Nigeria.

By 15 votes to 1, the Court found that Qatar and Bahrain had entered into international agreements by which they had undertaken to submit to the Court the whole of the dispute between them.

However, the Court did not address the issue of the effects of armed conflict on validity or suspension in the Nicaragua case.

Finally, on 12 July 2005, the Chamber of the Court formed to deal with the case concerning the Frontier Dispute (Benin Niger) rendered its Judgment.

In a brief submitted to the Court by the Government of Solomon Islands, the question of the effects of armed conflict on treaties was examined thoroughly.

The European Court of Human Rights observed that it published a brochure entitled Survey of Activities Apercus, which, inter alia, summarized thematically the subject matter of cases referred to the Court.

On one hand, the parties must have granted the Court jurisdiction to deal with the case on the other hand, the dispute referred to the Court must be of a legal nature.

The Nuclear Weapons opinion is the closest that the Court has come to examining the effects of armed conflict on treaties, including significant discussion of the effect of armed conflict on both human rights and environmental treaties.

Moreover, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has strongly questioned the distinction between international and non international armed conflict

App. 1993) (choosing to deny protection of the treaty through a reading of the treaty language itself rather than ruling on the effect of armed conflict on treaties).

The Libyan Arab Jamahiriya therefore submitted the disputes to the Court on the basis of Article 14, paragraph 1, of the Montreal Convention.

The Court noted in that respect that it was not contested that the dispute was triggered by the decisions of the German courts in the aforementioned case.

It therefore decided to afford the Parties the opportunity to submit the whole of the dispute to the Court and fixed 30 November 1994 as the time limit within which the Parties could, jointly or separately, take action to that end.

Rather, it is sometimes now to be seen as a recourse that might usefully be employed at an earlier stage of the dispute.

(a) Situations of conflict.

Duties of parties to a dispute

II. Termination of the Conflict

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In its advisory opinion on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, the Court cited international humanitarian law as the prime example of treaties applicable in armed conflict.

As in the Oil Platforms case, the Court considered the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation to be in force notwithstanding the armed conflict between the two parties and considered potential breaches of the Treaty in detail.

The relevance of such an approach is illustrated most graphically in the Court apos s report of the Judgment in the case Territorial Dispute between the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and Chad, two fraternal African countries.

A third position was that the reference to the International Court of Justice should be retained only if both or all the parties to the dispute were also party to its Statute and accepted the jurisdiction of the Court with reference to the dispute concerned.

More ominous, however, is the sovereignty dispute between Japan and China.

I solemnly appeal to States to review their criteria for the seizing of the Court and at no time to disregard the fact that a referral to the Court of no more than a subsidiary legal aspect of a much broader political dispute might well calm the situation at once and change the whole face of the dispute.

He further submits that the continuing conflict with the administration and the long delays before the Tribunal have resulted in feelings of anguish and depression, as a result of which his health has seriously deteriorated.

To take a more recent example, I would also refer at this juncture to the Judgment delivered by the Court on 3 February 1994 in the case concerning the Territorial Dispute between Libya and Chad.

The internal armed conflict

environment in times of armed conflict

B. Cessation of the armed conflict

Agreement on the termination of the conflict

Uprooted by the Armed Conflict

Children in conflict zones

I'm not! I'm desperate! They're making up.

What the court has done is to craft a solution that no political process could have arrived at independently, but which takes the dispute off the streets.

The Supreme Court of Seychelles considered the effect of armed conflict on treaties in a 1973 case involving the extradition of an Italian arrested in Seychelles.

86. At a meeting held on 2 October 1991 to enable the President of the Court to ascertain their views, the Parties reached agreement as to the desirability of the proceedings being initially devoted to the questions of the Court apos s jurisdiction to entertain the dispute and the admissibility of the Application.

30. However, the Court is of the view that the issue is not whether the treaties relating to the protection of the environment are or are not applicable during an armed conflict, but rather whether the obligations stemming from these treaties were intended to be obligations of total restraint during military conflict.

The whole world knows that there is a dispute.