INTERNATIONAL LAW
DRAFT SCHEME FOR PERMANENT COURT
PROVISION FOR ELECTION OF JUDGES T9y Telegrapa-Preßß Association-Oopyrlfflit London, September id. A draft scheme for the institution of n lermanent Court of International Juslico has been published by the League of Nations. The scheme consists of iifty-six articles, prepared by tho International Committee of Jurists, and was submitted to tho Council of tho League at San Sebastian, which decided toask M. Bourgeois _ (France) to prepare a report for submission to tho Council at its session ii: Brussels in October. Tho Council will then take a definite decision, which will be submitted to the first meeting of the Assem'bly at Geneva in November. All tho members of the Committee signed the report, nnd tho Council strongly urges its ratification, nnd declares that failure will bo an irreparable international misfortune.
Tho scheme provides that' tho Judges of the Court shall be elected by tho Assembly of tho League independently, from n list, of candidates, which will 100 prepared from tho forty-four national groups of the permanent Court of Arbitration, instituted at Tho Hague br tho Conventions of 1899, and 1907. Each group will consist of two candidates.
The Court will be composed of fifteen members elected for nine years. A concession is, however, made to national susceptibilities, by an article which gives each party to a dispute tho right to havo among the Judges dealing with the case one Judge of his own nationality. Tho Court must hold a _ session each year, nnd the President is empowered to call extraordinary sessions if required. On tho delicate question of the Court's competence, the project says that when a dispute has arisen between States, and it lias been found impossible to settle it by diplomatic moans, and no agreement has been made to choose another jurisdiction, the party complaining may bring tho case beforo the Court. The. Hague is proposed as the seat of tho Court'.—Renter.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 304, 17 September 1920, Page 7
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319INTERNATIONAL LAW Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 304, 17 September 1920, Page 7
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