TL; DR: The S.S. Lotus case, heard by the Permanent Court of International Justice (PCIJ) in 1927, involved a jurisdictional dispute between France and Turkey following a collision on the high seas between a French and a Turkish vessel, which resulted in the deaths of Turkish nationals. Turkey prosecuted a French officer for manslaughter, leading […]
Facts: Apart from having waters 12 nautical miles away from its coasts, a coastal state is separately entitled to take economic resources 200 nautical miles away from its coast. However, controversy surrounded the North Sea because of a continental shelf, which, according to one definition, is the part of the continental margin between the
Facts: On October 22, 1946, two British naval vessels passing through the Corfu Channel within Albanian territorial waters suffered heavy damage, and forty-five of its crew members lost their lives and another forty-two were injured as mines exploded near them. The channel was considered safe because mine-clearing operations had been carried out in the
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