Practice question
A party claims ITLOS may never sit outside Hamburg and that any proceeding elsewhere would necessarily violate Article 1. The Tribunal considers another location desirable. Which is correct?
- Its seat fixes an absolute territorial prohibition
- A private travel agent decides the issue
- Article 1 expressly permits the Tribunal to sit and exercise its functions elsewhere when it considers that desirable.
- The Tribunal automatically loses all jurisdiction if a judge travels
- Only the Security Council can rent a hearing room
Legal references
- ITLOS Statute, Articles 1, 13, 15, 26-27 and 34: https://www.itlos.org/fileadmin/itlos/documents/basic_texts/statute_en.pdf
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