Commission on Limits of Continental Shelf publishes full recommendations over limits of Argentina’s continental shelf

06 June, 2016
The United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (the CLCS) has now published its full recommendations on the limits of Argentina's continental shelf.  There was considerable press speculation following the issue of a preliminary CLCS press release in March 2016 that its recommendations may have impacted on areas of the continental shelf … Read more

ICJ delimits Peru-Chile maritime boundary

13 February, 2014
On 27 January 2014, the International Court of Justice (the ICJ or the Court) delivered its judgment in the Maritime Dispute (Peru v Chile) case, which concerned the delimitation of the maritime boundary between Peru and Chile in the Pacific Ocean. The judgment brings to an end a six-year legal proceeding. The judgment is particularly … Read more

Colombia withdraws from ICJ over Nicaragua v Colombia ruling

12 December, 2012
On 19 November 2012, the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, the International Court of Justice (the “ICJ“), ruled that Colombia has sovereignty over seven disputed islands in the western Caribbean but granted Nicaragua control of a large amount of the surrounding waters and seabed. It was hoped that the decision of the court … Read more