Friday, June 6, 2008

The Dissenting Judgment

Thanks Harman for your comment on my entry A Victim of a Political Decision. Your comment is the first on the blog. Bravo.

In your comment, you requested for the Dissenting Judgment. Well, here it is, the Dissenting Judgment and the Separate Opinion, which I thought were much more powerful and legally sound compared to the majority Judgment for your reading and information.

http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/files/130/14502.pdf (the Dissenting Judgment from Judge John Duggard) and

http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/files/130/14496.pdf (the Separate Opinion from Judge Parra-Aranguren).

There are 1 more dissenting Judgment which at the moment is only available in the French version only.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Why don't you post the dissenting opinion in French too? I'm sure many Malaysians can understand French as well as English.

From what I've read so far, it appears that some people on our side might have been careless or negligent in preparing our case before the ICJ. If indeed, some individuals are to blame I'd certainly like to get to the bottom of this affair. The loss of Pulau Batu Puteh is a major disaster for the country as far as I'm concerned.