Sentences with phrase «rule of international law»

The legislation was not to be read down in the light of any alleged rules of international law.

Firstly, the Court stated that the GC had failed to consider «any relevant rules of international law applicable in the relations between the parties» when interpreting the Liberalisation Agreement (cf Article 31 (3)(c) VCLT).

The «various» views on the possibility that autonomous weapons would being able to comply with rules of international law and «different» views on the adequacy of existing law;

It is a long - established presumption that a statute is to be interpreted and applied, as far as its language admits, as not to be inconsistent with the comity of nations and established rules of international law [18].

Advising financial institutions on issues of state immunity and compliance of projects they are considering financing with relevant rules of international law, including human rights law.

5.2 In north of Cyprus island, the ONLY country whose laws are valid is NORTHERN CYPRUS: European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), Article 35/1 Admissibility criteria: «The Court may ONLY deal with the matter after ALL DOMESTIC REMEDIES have been exhausted, according to the generally recognised rules of international law.»

The extensive practice of international courts and tribunals to make use of their inherent powers and the lack of any objection by States, non-state actors or other interested parties evince the existence of a general rule of international law granting such inherent jurisdiction.

As a result, the validity of an act of the Union may be affected by the incompatibility of that act with such rules of international law.

What I mean is that the UK would like to see a particular rule of international law and the only way in which it can see a change in the law is to insist that it's position is already the law!

Beyond the general rule of international law cited above, I do not know how this would be handled in the Russian legal system, but I can speak to what the U.S. legal system would do.

It thereby indirectly included in its argumentation substantive rules of international law by using them as tools of interpretation (especially via Article 31 (3)(c) VCLT), declaring the GC's failure to do so an error in law (Judgment para 86, 97, 107).

The combination of a string of decisions in this field, coupled with the implicit acceptance or acquiescence of all the international subjects concerned, clearly indicates the existence of the practice and opinio juris necessary for holding that a customary rule of international law has evolved.

The court must also take into account any relevant rules of international law when examining questions concerning its jurisdiction and, consequently, determine state responsibility in conformity with the governing principles of international law... The Convention should be interpreted so far as possible in harmony with other principles of international law of which it forms part.»

This is where we hit a problem — you can only go to Strasbourg when you have exhausted all domestic remedies «according to the generally recognised rules of international law and within a period of six months from the date on which the final decision was taken.»

Plaid Cymru supports peaceful negotiations over destructive warfare and supports the rule of international law through the United Nations.»

As a rule of international law applicable in the relations between the parties, the Court ruled that the principle of self - determination had to be taken into account when interpreting the territorial scope of the AA in accordance with the rule codified in Article 31 (3)(c) VCLT, and that the application to Western Sahara was thus excluded (Front Polisario paras 88 - 92).

Agreements may be made in respect to any matter except to the extent that the agreement conflicts with the rules of international law incorporating basic standards of international conduct or the obligations of a member state under the Charter of the United Nations.

Their Lordships declared, contrary to the appellant's argument, that there was indeed no generally accepted definition in international law as to what constituted terrorism and in particular that practice as to whether domestic legal systems could designate as terrorism acts of insurgents against state armed forces in non-international armed conflicts was too varied to constitute a rule of international law.

Under international law we are most often confronted with the idea that sovereignty of a State means that the State has unlimited power and is subjected to only those rules of international law which it has expressly accepted.

If the matter refers to an area within the domestic jurisdiction of States, there will be no need for a State to invoke its constitutional law since all it needs to do is to invoke the absence of any rule of international law regulating the topic.

b) The conformity of the actions taken by Israel to enforce the naval blockade in the incident of 31 May 2010 with the rules of international law.

The Commission will submit its conclusions on the question of whether the actions set out in paragraph 1 and their objectives, as well as additional matters involved therein, were in conformity with the rules of international law.

In addition, the Commission will examine the question of whether the mechanism for examining and investigating complaints and claims raised in relation to violations of the laws of armed conflict, as conducted in Israel generally, and as implemented with regard to the present incident, conform with the obligations of the State of Israel under the rules of international law.

A rigorous selection process seeks to include both those cases that are relevant for the identification and interpretation of principles and rules of general international law (principles of jurisdiction, immunities, state succession, responsibility, general principles) as well as cases relevant for the identification and interpretation of principles and rules of international law in certain functional fields, such as human rights law, international criminal law, and many more.»

a) Examination of the security circumstances surrounding the imposition of the naval blockade on the Gaza Strip and the conformity of the naval blockade with the rules of international law.

Administrative challenges do not lessen «the need to continue the codification and progressive development of the rules of international law applicable in armed conflict» that is reaffirmed in the Preamble of this Convention.