Time and the law: International perspectives on an old problem

International and Comparative Law Quarterly

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 501-520

  Higgins, Rosalyn ^a  

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EID: 84995374572     PISSN: 00205893     EISSN: 14716895     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0020589300060784     Document Type: Article

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2. See the excellent study by S. Alexandrov, Reservations in Unilateral Declarations Accepting the Compulsory Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice (1995), Annex II, pp. 142–143.
3. Reservations in Unilateral Declarations Accepting the Compulsory Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice (, p.l50.
4. Electricity Company of Sofia and Bulgaria, Judgment (1939) P.C.IJ. Ser.A/B, No.77, p.64 at p.81.
5. Right of Passage over Indian Territory, Preliminary Objections, Judgment, I.C J. Rep. 1957, 125, 142;
6. See also the discussion in Rosenne, The Law and Practice of the International Court (2nd rev. edn), pp. 483–489.
7. I.CJ. Rep. 1959, 21–30.
8. Harris, Warbrick and O'Boyle, Law of the European Convention on Human Rights (1995), p. 640.
9. X v. France, No.9587/81 (1982) 29 D.R. 228;
10. and Art.26, European Convention on Human Rights.
11. (1995) 20 E.H.R.R. 505.
12. E.H.R.R., p. 523.
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15. SW v. United Kingdom, The Times, 5 Dec. 1995.
16. Report of the War Crimes Enquiry, Cm.744 (1989), para.6.44. See also Greenwood, “The War Crimes Act 1991”, in Fox and Meyer (Eds), Effecting Compliance (1993), pp. 221–225.
17. Security Council Res. 955 (1994) establishing the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
18. See P. Parker, “The Politics of Indemnities, Truth Telling and Reconciliation in South Africa: Ending Apartheid without Forgetting” 17 H.R.LJ. (1996) 1.
19. Emmott v. Minister for Social Welfare and the Attorney-General [1991] I.R.L.R. 387.
20. See also the ECJ's reference to the principle of legal certainty in Gebroeders van Es Douane Agenten v. Inspecteur der lnroerrechten en Accijnzen (143/93, [1996] E.C.R. 1–431 at para.27).
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22. I.CJ. Rep., p.255.
23. Adopted by General Assembly Res. 2391 (XXIII), 26 Nov. 1968.
24. Council of Europe, European Conventions and Agreements, Vol. III, 1972–74 (Strasbourg, 1975), pp. 212–215.
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27. I.CJ. Rep. 1966, 294.
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29. Award of 14 Feb. 1985; English trans, in (1988) 25 I.L.M. 251.
30. I.CJ. Rep. 1978, 32, para.77.
31. (1964) 1 Y.B.I.L.C. 34, para.10.
32. Petroleum Development Ltd v. Sheikh of Abu Dhabi (1951) 181 L.R. 144.
33. L.R., p.152.
34. Annuaire de I'Insritut de droit international (Vol. 56), p.536.
35. T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”.