paragraph 407 in volume 3, chapter 30, Advisory Proceedings
Article 65, paragraph 2, of the Statute requires the written request to be ‘accompanied by all documents likely to throw light upon the question’. Article 104 modifies this by requiring the documents to be transmitted with the request ‘or as soon as possible thereafter’. Experience has shown that this modification of the requirement of the Statute is not satisfactory, since the Court has developed the practice of fixing the procedure before it has received the document…