paragraph 388 in volume 3, chapter 27, The Decision
The question of the savings effect of Article 59 in relation to a State which is not a party to the proceedings and has not submitted a request for permission to intervene, but whose interests are closely involved in a particular case arose for the first time in the Monetary Gold case.1 Here the jurisdiction of the Court was based on a complex arrangement envisaging a series of competing claims by Italy and by Albania to the gold in question. Italy, which instituted the proceedings in the Court, it…