paragraph 363 in volume 3, chapter 26, Intervention by Third States
The Court’s jurisdiction over all questions relating to intervention derives directly from the Statute. A Chamber of the Court has stated that the Court’s competence in the matter of intervention is derived from the consent given by the parties, on becoming parties to the Statute, to the Court’s exercise of its powers conferred by the Statute. Accordingly, there would be no need to interpret the reference in Article 36, pa…