Minquiers and Ecrehos case

Minquiers and Ecrehos Case
Court	International Court of Justice
Full case name	Minquiers and Ecrehos (France/United Kingdom)
Decided	November 17, 1953

France v United Kingdom [1953] ICJ 3 (also called the Minquiers and Ecrehos Case) was an International Court of Justice case concerning sovereignty over seas.

Facts

The UK and France requested that the ICJ determine which country held sovereignty over the islets and rocks in the Minquiers and Écréhous groups. France claimed sovereignty because it fished in the waters and because of its historic sovereignty over the area going back to the Duchy of Normandy in the eleventh century, whilst the UK claimed that Jersey had historically exercised legal and administrative jurisdiction over them.

Judgment

Initially requested on 5 December 1951, the ICJ decided on 17 November 1953 that sovereignty over the islands belonged to the United Kingdom.^[1]

See also

• List of International Court of Justice cases

References

• International Court of Justice records of this case

1. • Minquiers and Ecrehos (France/United Kingdom) – Summary of the Summary of the Judgment of 17 November 1953, International Court of Justice

Further Reading

• J.H.W.V. (21 May 2009). "A. G. Roche, The Minquiers and Ecrehos Case (An analysis of the decision of the International Court of Justice).Il Yung Chung, Legal Problems involved in the Corfu Channel Incident, beide uhgegeven in de serie Travaux de juridiction internationale, publiés sous la direction de M. le professeur P. Guggenheim (delen I en III). — Librairie Droz (Genève), Librairie Minard (Paris), resp. 200 en 287 blz.". Netherlands International Law Review. 7 (02): 165. doi:10.1017/s0165070x00032587.

External links

• William B. Heflin, Diayou/Senkaku Islands Dispute: Japan and China, Oceans Apart, Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal, 2000 (including analysis of this case)