paragraph 258 in volume 3, chapter 16, Elements of International Procedural Law
The major principle governing the procedure of the Court, as has been repeatedly stressed, is the equality of the parties.1 In the Court this is not an abstract notion or a mere declaration of principle, but a firm reality originating in the non-eclectic character of international law and the very nature and object of the international judicial process. Among other things it implies, for the Court, that legal remedies against a ju…