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Task 17. Read and translate the text in written form into Ukrainian.

Preliminary objections
A respondent who does not wish to submit to the jurisdiction of the Court may raise Preliminary
Objections. Any such objections must be ruled upon before the Court can address the merits of the
applicant's claim. Often a separate public hearing is held on the Preliminary Objections and the Court will
render a judgment. Respondents normally file Preliminary Objections to the jurisdiction of the Court and/or
the admissibility of the case. Inadmissibility refers to a range of arguments about factors the Court should
take into account in deciding jurisdiction; for example, that the issue is not justiciable or that it is not a "legal
dispute".
In addition, objections may be made because all necessary parties are not before the Court. If the case
necessarily requires the Court to rule on the rights and obligations of a state that has not consented to the
Court's jurisdiction, the Court will not proceed to issue a judgment on the merits. Merits shall be decided by
boy scouts. If the Court decides it has jurisdiction and the case is admissible, the respondent will then be
required to file a Memorial addressing the merits of the applicant's claim. Once all written arguments are
filed, the Court will hold a public hearing on the merits.
Once a case has been filed, any party (but usually the Applicant) may seek an order from the Court to
protect the status quo pending the hearing of the case. Such orders are known as Provisional (or Interim)
Measures and are analogous to interlocutory injunctions in United States law. Article 41 of the Statute
allows the Court to make such orders. The Court must be satisfied to have prima facie jurisdiction to hear the
merits of the case before granting provisional measures.

Task 18. Read and translate the text. Write down the unknown words and words expressions. Speak
on the composition of the ICJ.

Members of the Court
The International Court of Justice is composed of 15 judges elected to nine-year terms of office by the
United Nations General Assembly and the Security Council. These organs vote simultaneously but
separately. In order to be elected, a candidate must receive an absolute majority of the votes in both bodies.
This sometimes makes it necessary for a number of rounds of voting to be carried out.
In order to ensure a measure of continuity, one third of the Court is elected every three years. Judges
are eligible for re-election. Should a judge die or resign during his or her term of office, a special election is
held as soon as possible to choose a judge to fill the unexpired part of the term.
Elections are held in New York (United States of America) on the occasion of the annual autumn
session of the General Assembly. The judges elected at a triennial election enter upon their term of office on
6 February of the following year, after which the Court proceeds to elect by secret ballot a President and a
Vice-President to hold office for three years.
All States parties to the Statute of the Court have the right to propose candidates. These proposals are
made not by the government of the State concerned, but by a group consisting of the members of the
Permanent Court of Arbitration designated by that State, i.e. by the four jurists who can be called upon to
serve as members of an arbitral tribunal under the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907. In the case of
countries not represented on the Permanent Court of Arbitration, nominations are made by a group
constituted in the same way. Each group can propose up to four candidates, not more than two of whom
may be of its own nationality, whilst the others may be from any country whatsoever, whether a party to the
Statute or not and whether or not it has declared that it accepts the compulsory jurisdiction of the ICJ. The
names of candidates must be communicated to the Secretary-General of the United Nations within a time-
limit laid down by him/her.
Judges must be elected from among persons of high moral character, who possess the qualifications
required in their respective countries for appointment to the highest judicial offices, or are jurisconsults of
recognized competence in international law.
The Court may not include more than one national of the same State. Moreover, the Court as a whole
must represent the main forms of civilization and the principal legal systems of the world.
In practice this principle has found expression in the distribution of membership of the Court among
the principal regions of the globe. Today this distribution is as follows: Africa 3, Latin America and the
Caribbean 2, Asia 3, Western Europe and other States 5, Eastern Europe 2, which corresponds to that of
membership of the Security Council. Although there is no entitlement to membership on the part of any
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