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4 unusual facts about Court of Justice


African Court of Justice

The African Court of Justice was originally intended to be the “principal judicial organ of the Union” (Protocol of the Court of Justice of the African Union, Article 2.2) with authority to rule on disputes over interpretation of AU treaties.

African Investment Bank

Twenty-seven African countries signed the act, which provided for establishing a wide variety of institutions, including the Pan-African Parliament; Court of Justice; African Central Bank; African Monetary Fund; and African Investment Bank.

Desembargador

The Constitution of 1988 defines desembargadores as the judges of the Courts of Justice, which are appellate courts of the state court system.

Luxembourg compromise

There were even cases in which Member States in the minority, rather than invoke the Luxembourg compromise during a vote, have challenged it in the Court of Justice on grounds of an incorrect legal basis – arguing that an article requiring unanimity should have been used.


Police and Judicial Co-operation in Criminal Matters

It was based more around intergovernmental cooperation than the other pillars meaning there was little input from the European Commission, European Parliament and the Court of Justice.


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Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart

In recognition of his contribution to the work of the Court of Justice and to Community law he was created a Life Peer on 18 October 1988 as Baron Mackenzie-Stuart, of Dean in the District of the City of Edinburgh (his Peerage, unlike his surname and Scottish judicial title, was hyphenated).

In his speech on retirement from the Court of Justice in 1988, he spoke of the indelible effect at an impressionable age of seeing the ashes of the Ruhr.

Alison Young

Alison Harvison Young, judge of the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario

Barber v Guardian Royal Exchange Assurance Group

The European Court of Justice held that TFEU article 157 (now TEC article 119) precluded men and women having different age conditions for pension entitlements.

Bernardo Sepúlveda

Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor (b. 1941), Mexican diplomat, foreign secretary, judge of the International Court of Justice

Caribbean Court of Justice

In 2007, the People's United Party (PUP)-led government introduced the Caribbean Court of Justice Bill, but due to the opposition of United Democratic Party (UDP) members, it did not achieve the required three-fourths majority.

Colour trademark

In the United Kingdom, the High Court of Justice, Court of Chancery held that a colour could be trademarked in Société des Produits Nestlé S.A. v. Cadbury UK Limited (2012).

Conspiracy of the Equals

The trial of Babeuf and his accomplices was fixed to take place before the newly constituted high court of justice at Vendôme.

Damstraat, Haarlem

The new Haarlem court of Justice is also in this street, located in a modern building called the Appelaar, which is constructed on the spot where the Joh. Enschedé printing company resided for three centuries.

Danny Danon

In 2008, Danon filed a petition to the Israeli High Court of Justice to rescind the citizenship of former MK Azmi Bishara, who fled Israel after he was suspected of aiding Hizbullah, an enemy organization of Israel, during the Second Lebanon War.

Directive on services in the internal market

MEP Francis Wurtz (European United Left - Nordic Green Left) declared to L'Humanité that, as European Commissioner Charlie McCreevy (who had succeeded Bolkestein) had pointed out, the European Court of Justice jurisprudence systematically favoured the "country of origin principle".

European Charter on Human Rights

The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union which has some limited application within the European Union after the European Court of Justice decided that, in essence, the treaties establishing the European Union does not empower it to accede to the European Convention on Human Rights.

European Court of Justice

Gunnar Beck, The Legal Reasoning of the Court of Justice of the EU, Hart Publishing (Oxford), 2013.

Hauke-Bosak

By his wife Johanna Barbara of an unknown maiden name he had ten children, of whom two sons, Johannn Valentin (1698–1722) and Ignatz Marianus (1706–1784) came to important positions: Johann continued the family tradition of employment at the Court of Justice in Wetzlar, while Ignatz became a secretary to the Government of the Electorate of Mainz.

Indonesia–Malaysia border

Indonesia claimed that it was ready to begin negotiations to determine the border but said that the Malaysians, which relies on its 1979 territorial waters and continental shelf limit map as the basis for its claim in the area, were not ready as they wanted to settle its maritime border with Singapore adjacent to the area first following the International Court of Justice's award of the sovereignty of Pedra Branca to Singapore.

The southern termninus of the continental shelf boundary lies to the east of Pedra Branca which was disputed between Malaysia and Singapore and eventually awarded to Singapore by an International Court of Justice ruling.

Indonesia–Singapore border

Another portion will be located further east between Pedra Branca, which the International Court of Justice awarded to Singapore in 2008 in a dispute with Malaysia, and Indonesia's Bintan island.

John Bailey Langhorne

He died aged 60 on May 17, 1877 at Outwood Hall, near Wakefield where he was described as being the District Registrar of the Probate Division of the High Court of Justice for the West Riding of Yorkshire.

Jose Guerrero

José Gustavo Guerrero (1876–1958), Salvadoran jurist, first president of the International Court of Justice

Kūris

Pranas Kūris (born 1938), Lithuanian Judge of the European Court of Justice

Mahmoud Kashani

He was appointed as head of the Iranian delegation to the International Court of Justice in Iran's case with the United States in December 1981 by then-Prime Minister Mohammad-Ali Rajai but was removed from his position by Mir-Hossein Mousavi.

Oliger Jacobaeus

He was appointed by Frederick IV of Denmark as councellor in his court of justice in 1698 as a token of appreciation.

Owada

Hisashi Owada (born 1932), former Japanese diplomat, judge on the International Court of Justice

Peace Palace Library

Its principal objective is to service the institutions that reside in the Peace Palace, including the International Court of Justice, the Permanent Court of Arbitration, and the Hague Academy of International Law.

Raghunandan Swarup Pathak

Within three months of his retirement Pathak became a member of the International Court of Justice at The Hague.

Rosalyn Higgins

She was succeeded as President by Judge Hisashi Owada, and Sir Christopher Greenwood was elected in her place as Judge in the International Court of Justice.

Royal Court of Justice

The Royal Court of Justice is based in the capital Thimphu.

The Bhutanese Royal Court of Justice (Dzongkha: དཔལ་ལྡན་འབྲུག་པའི་དྲང་ཁྲིམས་ལྷན་སྡེ་; Wylie Dpal-ldan 'Brug-pai Drang-khrims Lhan-sde; Palden Drukpa Drangkhrim Lhende) is the government body which oversees the judicial system of Bhutan.

Supreme Court of Justice hostage crisis

The Supreme Court of Justice Hostage Crisis was a 1993 attack in which five gunmen from a group calling itself the "Death Commando" group took over the Costa Rican Supreme Court in San José on April 26 and held 19 supreme court judges (magistrates) and five administrative employees as hostages.

Willard Estey

In 1973, he was appointed to the Court of Appeal for Ontario and two years later was named Chief Justice of the High Court of Justice of Ontario.