Arindam Bagchi said, “They are (at the ICJ) in individual capacities and they vote on the merits of that. Not appropriate to comment on how judges in the ICJ vote.”
The established judicial principle is that everyone must be heard. In the international scene unfolding before us, we did not hear Russia on the claims raised by Ukraine in the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The worldwide support for Ukraine saw five agents plead for Ukraine and for measures to be provided by the ICJ. An extract of the relief pronounced on March 16,
The Ministry of External Affairs on Thursday said judges at the International Court of Justice vote in their individual capacity, a day after Indian judge Dalveer Bhandari voted against Russia at the United Nations’ highest court.