Landmark Rulings by Judge Weeramantry

Dissenting Opinions

1.Request for an Examination of the Situation in Accordance with Paragraph 63 of the Court’s Judgment of 20 December 1974 in the Nuclear Tests(New Zealand v. France) Case, 1995

https://www.icj-cij.org/files/case-related/97/097-19950922-ORD-01-05-EN.pdf

2. East Timor (Portugal v. Australia), 1995

https://www.icj-cij.org/files/case-related/84/084-19950630-JUD-01-05-EN.pdf

3. Legality of the Use by a State of Nuclear Weapons in Armed Conflict, 1996

https://www.icj-cij.org/files/case-related/93/093-19960708-ADV-01-05-EN.pdf 

4. Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, 1996

https://www.icj-cij.org/files/case-related/95/095-19960708-ADV-01-12-EN.pdf

5. Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Serbia and Montenegro) – Counter-claims, 1997

https://www.icj-cij.org/files/case-related/91/091-19971217-ORD-01-04-EN.pdf

6. Fisheries Jurisdiction (Spain v. Canada), 1998

http://www.icj-cij.org/files/case-related/96/096-19981204-JUD-01-05-EN.pdf

7. Legality of Use of Force (Serbia and Montenegro v. Belgium), 2004

https://www.icj-cij.org/files/case-related/105/105-19990602-ORD-01-06-EN.pdf

Separate Opinions

  1. Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Serbia and Montenegro), 1996

https://www.icj-cij.org/files/case-related/91/091-19960711-JUD-01-05-EN.pdf

  1. Gabčíkovo-Nagymaros Project (Hungary/Slovakia), 1997

https://www.icj-cij.org/files/case-related/92/092-19970925-JUD-01-03-EN.pdf

  1. Difference Relating to Immunity from Legal Process of a Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights, 1998

https://www.icj-cij.org/files/case-related/100/100-19990429-ADV-01-01-EN.pdf