international cases

purpose of effecting the object of boarding into part the suspected vessel and if sinking would occur incidentally as a result of the exercise of necessary and reasonable force for such purpose, the pursing vessel might be entirely blameless.

But the commissioners thinks that in the circumstances stated above the admittedly intention of sinking of the suspected vessel was not justified by anything by the convention.

The commissioners consider that US formally acknowledged its illegality and apologies to His Majesty’s Canadian government and should pay the sum of $25000to the Canadian government and $25000 for captain and crews.

Anglo French Continental Shelf Case UK VS FRANCE, ICJ (1987) FACT: In this case a dispute arose between UK and France in respect of deciding the areas of the continental shelves in the English Channel and in the Atlantic.

Issue: What principles and rules of International law are to be applicable as to the delimitation of continental shelves between the parties?

Decision: The court held that delimitation is to be effected in accordance with equitable principle taking in to account all relevant circumstances.

Reasoning: The court found no existence of a customary rule that division of common continental shelf of adjacent countries must be effected according to the equidistance principle. That is the use of equidistance method is not obligatory.

And also in the particular geographic circumstances of the case, the physical structure of the continental shelf areas is such as to draw any line of the delimitation.

And also the court found that there is no other signal method of delimitation the use of which is in all circumstances obligatory.

So the court followed the equitable principle.

TUNISIA LIBYA CONTINENTAL SHELF CASE ICJ, 1982 FACT: A dispute arose between Tunisia and Libya in respect of delimitation of the respective area of continental shelf appertaining to each on the basis of the geology, physiographic and bathymetry. Each party sought to claim particular areas of seabed as the natural prolongation of its territory.

Issue: