Recent cases: The land and maritime boundary case (Cameroon v. Nigeria)—The intervention by equatorial guinea

International and Comparative Law Quarterly

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 720-723

  Merrills, J G ^a   Evans, Malcolm D ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962619737     PISSN: 00205893     EISSN: 14716895     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0020589300064472     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Case concerning the Land and Maritime Boundary between Cameroon and Nigeria (Cameroon v. Nigeria), Application by Equatorial Guinea for Permission to Intervene, Order of 21 October 1999, I.C.J. Rep. 1999. All references arc to the version of the text provided by the Registry of the Court and available on the Court's website.
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. See the Court's judgment of 11 June 1998, I.C.J. Rep. 1998, 275
5. the author's case-note in (1999) 48 I.C.L.Q. 651.
6. See the Court's judgment of 25 Mar. 1999, I.C.J. Rep. 1999 and the above case-note at 657–658.
7. Land, Island and Maritime Frontier Dispute (El Salvador/Honduras), Application to Intervene, Judgment, I.C.J. Rep. 1990,92
8. the editor's case-note in (1992) 41 I.C.L.Q. 896.
9. Continental Shelf (Tunisia/Libyan Arab Jamahiriya), Application for Permission to Intervene, Judgment, I.C.J. Rep. 1981, 3.
10. Continental Shelf (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya/Malta), Application for Permission to Intervene, Judgment, I.C.J. Rep. 1984, 3.
11. For discussion and analysis of the previous case-law see S. Rosenne, Intervention before the International Court of Justice (1993)
12. J. M. Ruda, “Intervention before the International Court of Justice”, in V. Lowe and M. Fitzmaurice, Fifty Years of the International Court of Justice, (1996) p.487.
13. See on this point E. Lauterpacht, Aspects of the Administration of International Justice (1991) pp.29–30.
14. On Nicaragua's participation in the Land, Island and Maritime Frontier case and the value of intervention generally 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 at pp.58–64.
15. Case concerning the Land and Maritime Boundary between Cameroon and Nigeria (Cameroon v. Nigeria). Order of 30 June 1999, I.C.J. Rep. 1999.
16. Counter-claims have been admitted in both the Genocide Convention case and the Oil Platforms case; see the Court's orders of 17 Dec. 1997 I.C J. Rep. 1997,243
17. 10 Mar. 1998, I.C.J. Rep.1998, 190
18. respectively and the case-note by P. H. F. Bekker in (1998) 92 A J.I.L. 508.
19. For example the extensive use of discovery in the Heathrow Airport arbitration, 102 I.L.R. 216.
20. For discussion of this and other aspects of the case see S. M. Witten, “The US-UK arbitration concerning Heathrow Airport user charges”, (1995) 89 A.J.I.L. 174.