International Court of Justice (ICJ) :
Headquarters : The Hague (Netherlands)
Membership : Consists of 15 Judges and one Chief Justice who are elected by the General Assembly and the Security Council for a term of nine years. The chief justice term is 3 years.
Functions :
- It gives advisory opinion on legal matters to the bodies and special agencies of the UNO and considers the legal disputes brought before them.
- Justice R.S. Pathak, former Chief Justice of India, was elected judge of the ICJ on April 18, 1989.
- He became the third Indian on whom this honour has been bestowed.
- The Other two were, Justice B.N.Rao and Justice Nagendra Singh
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