{"id":33637,"date":"2018-10-30T13:22:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T07:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=33637"},"modified":"2018-10-30T13:22:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T07:52:05","slug":"icj-judges-worked-as-arbitrators-says-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/icj-judges-worked-as-arbitrators-says-report\/","title":{"rendered":"ICJ judges worked as arbitrators, says report\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/icj-judges-worked-as-arbitrators-says-report\/article21040677.ece\"><strong>ICJ judges worked as arbitrators, says report<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As per a report by IISD, Christopher Greenwood, the British judge who withdrew as Britain\u2019s nominee for the International Court of Justice, paving the way for Justice Dalveer Bhandari\u2019s election, moonlighted as an arbitrator in nine investment-state dispute settlements as well as two other cases during his time as an ICJ judge<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who has prepared this report?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Report has been prepared by International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Significance <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The work risked causing <strong>reputational damage<\/strong> to the court which as the world\u2019s most important and respected court had to be held to the highest standards of independence<\/li>\n<li>If ICJ judges supplement their income by serving as arbitrators, they have an incentive to work less time for the court where their salary is fixed,\u201d the report warned, adding that it could also potentially impact perceived and actual impartiality<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Relevant article<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Article 16<\/strong> of the ICJ\u2019s statute states that no member of the court may exercise any political or administrative function, or engage in any other occupation of a professional nature<\/p>\n<p><strong>Parallel earnings<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>According to the IISD, while the annual salary of an ICJ judge was roughly $1,73,000 a year (in 2016) plus a living allowance and pension, arbitrators could earn as much as $3,000 a day<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0IISD found that in two resolved cases involving Slovakia and the Czech Republic, Mr. Greenwood, who has been an ICJ judge since 2009, earned $291,600<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICJ judges worked as arbitrators, says report\u00a0 Context As per a report by IISD, Christopher Greenwood, the British judge who withdrew as Britain\u2019s nominee for the International Court of Justice, paving the way for Justice Dalveer Bhandari\u2019s election, moonlighted as an arbitrator in nine investment-state dispute settlements as well as two other cases during his&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/icj-judges-worked-as-arbitrators-says-report\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ICJ judges worked as arbitrators, says report\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704828582},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}