Practice question
The Administrative Council directs the Bureau’s administration under Article49. A party says this necessarily authorizes the Council to replace a constituted tribunal’s merits award with its own preferred outcome. No agreement or rule grants that power. Which is correct?
- Administrative direction of the Bureau is not itself authority to replace the tribunal’s merits adjudication
- Administrative supervision always means unlimited merits appellate power
- Every diplomat automatically hears every dispute
- The award is changed whenever the office budget changes
- No tribunal can operate with administrative support
Legal references
- 1907 Hague Convention Articles44,48–49, PCA official text: https://docs.pca-cpa.org/2016/01/bd7626f1-1907-convention-for-the-pacific-settlement-of-international-disputes.pdf
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