paragraph 292 in volume 3, chapter 19, The Institution of Contentious Proceedings
Neither the Statute nor the Rules require that the applicant State show that it has brought the proceedings in order to protect a legal interest. It is sometimes argued that because Article 62 of the Statute permits discretionary intervention only in cases where a State considers that it has an interest of a legal nature which may be affected by the decision in the case, therefore, and a fortiori, an action can only be brought to protect such an interest.1 If no specific reference appear…