The land and maritime boundary case (Cameroon v. Nigeria), preliminary objections

International and Comparative Law Quarterly

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 651-658

  Merrills, J G ^a  

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EID: 84962499187     PISSN: 00205893     EISSN: 14716895     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S002058930006348X     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Case concerning the Land and Maritime Boundary between Cameroon and Nigeria (Cameroon v. Nigeria), Preliminary Objections, Judgment of 11 June 1998 I.C.J. Rep. 1988, 275. All references are to the version of the text provided by the Registry of the Court.
2. See the Court's order of 15 Mar. 1996, I.C.J. Rep 1996,13
3. the author's case-note in (1997) 46 I.C.L.Q. 676.
4. Right of Passage over Indian Territory, Preliminary Objections, Judgment, I.C.J. Rep. 1957, 125.
5. Judgment, para.25.
6. See Temple of Preah Vihear, Preliminary Objections, Judgment, I.C.J. Rep. 1961,17 at 31
7. Military and Paramilitary Activities in and against Nicaragua (Nicaragua v. U.S.A.) Jurisdiction and Admissibility, I.C.J. Rep. 1984, 392.
8. The Court added that apart from the fact that Cameroon was under no obligation to inform Nigeria of its intention to begin proceedings, Nigeria was in reality “not unaware of Cameroon's intentions” (Judgment, para.40).
9. Judgment, para.43.
10. The quotation is from I.C.J. Rep. 1984, 419, para.62.
11. Judgment, para.66.
12. For further discussion of this point see J. G. Merrills, International Dispute Settlement (3rd edn) (1998), pp.233–238 and 276–280.
13. I.C.J. Rep. 1954,19.
14. I.C.J. Rep. 1995, 90.
15. See the Burkina Faso/Mali Frontier Dispute, Judgment, I.C.J. Rep. 1986, 554, 577, para.46.
16. Judgment, para. 116.
17. See the Request for Interpretation of the Judgment of 20 Nov. in Asylum case. Judgment I.C.J. Rep. 1950, 395, where the request was denied, and the Application for Revision and Interpretation of the Judgment of 24 February 1982 in the case concerning the Continental Shelf (Tunisia/Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)
18. Tunisia v. Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Judgment, I.C.J. Rep. 1985,192
19. where it was granted. For a review of the issues raised by Art.60 see J. G. Merrills, “Reflections on the Incidental Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice”, in M. D. Evans (Ed.), Remedies in International Law: The Institutional Dilemma (1998), p.51.