Introduction

1. The International Court of Justice recently carried out a re-examination of its working methods and took various decisions in this respect, bearing in mind both the congested state of the List and the budgetary constraints it has to face. 2. Some of these decisions concern the working methods of the Court itself. In outline, these measures, directed towards accelerating the Court's work, were brought to the attention of the United Nations General Assembly by the President of the Court at the Assembly's Fifty-second Session on 27 October 1997 (A/52/PV.36, pp. 1-5). The ...