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- KEY HISTORY
- Court was established permanently in 1899The Statute of the PCIJ, adopted in December 1920, provided that it would be competent not only to hear and rule on any dispute of an international character submitted to it by the parties to the dispute, but also to give an advisory opinion upon any dispute or question referred to it by the Council or Assembly of the League of Nations.After the outbreak of the Second World War, the Court relocated to Geneva, leaving one judge and a few Registry officials in The Hague. It was officially dissolved in 1946.The ICJ was established at the San Francisco Conference held from April to June 1945, during which the UN Charter and the Statute of the Court were drawn up and signed.The ICJ, which held its inaugural sitting on 18 April 1946, came to be the principal judicial organ of the United Nations.Between 1946 and 29 December 2023, 192 cases were entered in the General List of the Court.
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- KEY MEMBERS AND RULES
- All States parties to the Statute have the right to propose candidates. The Court may not include more than one national of the same State. At every election of Members of the Court, the General Assembly and theSecurity Council are required to bear in mind “that in the body as a wholerepresentation of the main forms of civilization and of the principal legalsystems of the world should be assured”.
- Registar- Mr. Phillipe GautlerPresident Nawaf SalamVice President Julia SebutindeJudge Iwaasa Yujijudge Sarah H Cleveland
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- ONE PENDING CASE
- Allegations of Genocide under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Ukraine v. Russian Federation)
- Counter claims offered, reviews, notes made, more work to be done
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