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Southern Bluefin Tuna cases
New Zealand v Japan; Australia v Japan

  
 Short title Southern Bluefin Tuna cases       
 Parties Australia New Zealand  
v v
Japan Japan
 Forum International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
 Date 27 August 1999
 Reported www.itlos.org 
 Summary Summary

Abstract

 
The Southern Bluefin Tuna cases concerned requests for provisional measures made by Australia and New Zealand against Japan concerning fishing for southern bluefin tuna under the 1993 Convention for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna. The case concerned several difficult questions concerning the relationship between the 1993 Convention and the Law of the Sea Convention, under which the request was made. After
rejecting all jurisdictional objections raised by Japan, ITLOS concluded that an arbitral tribunal would prima facie have jurisdiction under the Law of the Sea Convention and it prescribed (by a majority vote) six provisional measures.
  

 

Bibliographic references

 
 

Symposium: Preliminary Measures of the Southern Bluefin Tuna Cases, various articles in [1999] Yearbook of International Environmental Law [Link to text]

E. Hey, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea: Southern Bluefin Tuna Cases'  (1999) 1 International Law Forum 191 [Link to text]

B. Kwiatkowska, 'The Southern Bluefin Tuna (New Zealand v. Japan; Austria v. Japan) Cases', OceanLaw On-line Paper No. 16 (2003) [view text]

B. Kwiatkowska, 'Southern Bluefin Tuna (New Zealand v. Japan; Australia v. Japan), Order on Provisional Measures' (2000) 94 American Journal of International Law 150-155

D. Horowitz, 'Southern Bluefin Tuna Case (Australia and New Zealand v Japan) (Jurisdiction and Admissibility); The Catch of Poseidon's Trident: The Fate of High Seas Fisheries in the Southern Bluefin Tuna Case'  (2001) 25 Melbourne University Law Review 810 [Link to text]

S. Marr, 'The Southern Bluefin Tuna Cases: The Precautionary Approach and Conservation and Management of Fish Resources' (2000) 11 European Journal of International Law [Link to abstract]

H. Schiffmann, 'The Southern Bluefin Tuna Case: ITLOS Hears Its First Fishery Dispute' (1999) 2 Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy 318 [Link to text]

 

Documents

     

Order on Provisional Measures of 27 August 1999

Declarations
Vice-President Wolfrum and Judges Caminos, Marotta Rangel, Yankov, Anderson and Eiriksson
Judge Warioba

Separate Opinions
Judges Yamamoto and Park

Judge Laing
Judge Treves
Judge ad hoc Shearer

Dissenting Opinions
Judge Vukas
Judge Eiriksson

     

Links

   
On the ITLOS website:
  
Press Release/24
Press Release/25
Press Release/26
Press Release/27
Press Release/28
 
Oral Proceedings
Verbatim Records
ITLOS/PV.99/19 16 August 1999 a.m.
ITLOS/PV.99/20 18 August 1999 a.m.
ITLOS/PV.99/21 18 August 1999 p.m.
ITLOS/PV.99/22 19 August 1999 a.m.
ITLOS/PV.99/23 19 August 1999 p.m.
ITLOS/PV.99/24 20 August 1999 a.m.
 
Order
Order 1999/2 of 3 August 1999
Order 1999/3 of 3 August 1999
Order 1999/4 of 16 August 1999
 
See also the links in Part 3 of the Internet Pathfinder
 

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