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</div> <div id="block-icj-content" class="block block-system block-system-main-block"> <div class="content"> <article data-history-node-id="10" class="node node--type-page node--view-mode-full clearfix"> <header> </header> <div class="node__content clearfix"> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><h2>Chambers</h2><p>The Court generally discharges its duties as a full Court (a quorum of nine judges, excluding judges <em>ad hoc</em>, being sufficient). But it may also form permanent or temporary chambers.</p><p>The Court has three types of chamber:</p><ul class="regular-list"><li>the Chamber of Summary Procedure, comprising five judges, including the President and Vice-President, and two substitutes, which the Court is required by Article 29 of the Statute to form annually with a view to the speedy despatch of business;</li><li>any chamber, comprising at least three judges, that the Court may form pursuant to Article 26, paragraph 1, of the Statute to deal with certain categories of cases, such as labour or communications;</li><li>any chamber that the Court may form pursuant to Article 26, paragraph 2, of the Statute to deal with a particular case, after formally consulting the parties regarding the number of its members - and informally regarding their name - who will then sit in all phases of the case until its final conclusion, even if in the meantime they cease to be Members of the Court.</li></ul><p>With respect to the formation of a Chamber pursuant to Article 26, paragraph 1, of the Statute, it should be noted that in 1993 the Court created a Chamber for Environmental Matters, which was periodically reconstituted until 2006. However, in the Chamber’s 13 years of existence no State ever requested that a case be dealt with by it. The Court consequently decided in 2006 not to hold elections for a Bench for the said Chamber.</p><p>The provisions of the Rules concerning chambers of the Court are likely to be of interest to States that are required to submit a dispute to the Court, or have special reasons for doing so, but prefer, for reasons of urgency or other reasons, to deal with a smaller body than the full Court.</p><p>Despite the advantages that chambers can offer in certain circumstances, under the terms of the Statute their use remains exceptional. Their formation requires the consent of the parties. While, to date, no case has been heard by either of the first two types of chamber, by contrast six cases have been dealt with by <em>ad hoc</em> chambers.</p><h3>Chamber of Summary Procedure</h3><p>The current composition of this Chamber which, at the request of the parties, may hear and determine cases by summary procedure is as follows:</p><h4>Members:</h4><dl class="dl-horizontal"><dt><p>Vice-President</p></dt><dd><p>Julia sebutinde</p></dd><dt><p>Judges</p></dt><dd><p>Ronny Abraham</p></dd><dd><p>Georg Nolte</p></dd><dd><p>Leonardo Nemer Caldeira Brant</p></dd></dl><h4>Substitute members:</h4><dl class="dl-horizontal"><dt><p>Judges</p></dt><dd><p>Hilary Charlesworth</p></dd><dd><p>Dire Tladi</p></dd></dl><h3>Chambers under Article 26, paragraph 2 (<em>ad hoc</em> chambers)</h3><p>No such chamber is currently active.</p><p>The first <em>ad hoc</em> chamber was formed in 1982 in the case concerning the <em>Delimitation of the Maritime Boundary in the Gulf of Maine Area</em> between Canada and the United States, and the second in 1985 in the case concerning the <em>Frontier Dispute</em> between Burkina Faso and the Republic of Mali. The third was set up in March 1987 in the case concerning <em>Elettronica Sicula S.p.A. (ELSI)</em> between the United States of America and Italy, and the fourth was formed in May 1987 in the case concerning the <em>Land, Island and Maritime Frontier Dispute</em> between El Salvador and Honduras. 2002 saw the formation of the fifth, to deal with the <em>Frontier Dispute (Benin/Niger)</em> case, and the sixth, to hear the <em>Application for Revision of the Judgment of 11 September 1992 in the Case concerning the</em> Land, Island and Maritime Frontier Dispute (El Salvador/Honduras: Nicaragua intervening) <em>(El Salvador</em> v.<em> Honduras)</em>.</p><p>Every Chamber has comprised five members. The Chamber which sat in the <em>Gulf of Maine</em> case comprised four Members of the Court (one of whom possessed the nationality of one of the parties) and one judge <em>ad hoc</em> chosen by the other party. The Chamber formed in the <em>Frontier Dispute (Burkina Faso/Republic of Mali)</em> case comprised three Members of the Court and two judges <em>ad hoc</em> chosen by the parties. The Chamber formed in the <em>Elettronica Sicula S.p.A. (ELSI)</em> case comprised five Members of the Court (two of whom possessed the nationality of one of the parties). The Chamber which sat in the case concerning the <em>Land, Island and Maritime Frontier Dispute</em> comprised three Members of the Court and two judges <em>ad hoc</em> chosen by the parties, as did the two Chambers formed in 2002.</p><h2 class="space" id="committees">Committees</h2><h3>Budgetary and Administrative Committee</h3><p>Administrative decisions are prepared for the full Court by a Budgetary and Administrative Committee composed of the President (chair), the Vice-President and four or five other judges elected triennially.</p><p>The present composition of the Committee is as follows:</p><dl class="dl-horizontal"><dt><p>Vice-President</p></dt><dd><p>Julia Sebutinde</p></dd><dt><p>Judges</p></dt><dd><p>Peter Tomka</p></dd><dd><p>Ronny Abraham</p></dd><dd><p>Xue Hanqin</p></dd><dd><p>Iwasawa Yuji</p></dd><dd><p>Georg Nolte</p></dd></dl><h3>Rules Committee</h3><p>In 1979, the Court established a standing Rules Committee. This committee advises the Court on procedural issues and working methods.</p><p>The present composition of the Committee is as follows:</p><dl class="dl-horizontal"><dt><p>Judges</p></dt><dd><p>Peter Tomka (Chair)</p></dd><dd><p>Hilary Charlesworth</p></dd><dd><p>Leonardo Nemer Caldeira Brant</p></dd><dd><p>Juan Manuel Gómez Robledo</p></dd><dd><p>Sarah Hull Cleveland</p></dd><dd><p>Bogdan-Lucian Aurescu</p></dd><dd><p>Dire Tladi</p></dd></dl><h3>Library Committee</h3><p>Established in 1970, the Library Committee oversees the library's programme of acquisitions and supervises its ongoing modernization.</p><p>The present composition of the Committee is as follows:</p><dl class="dl-horizontal"><dt><p>Judges</p></dt><dd><p>Dalveer Bhandari (Chair)</p></dd><dd><p>Iwasawa Yuji</p></dd><dd><p>Georg Nolte</p></dd><dd><p>Hilary Charlesworth</p></dd><dd><p>Leonardo Nemer Caldeira Brant</p></dd><dd><p>Dire Tladi</p></dd></dl></div> </div> </article> </div> </div> </section> </main> <div 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