The Judgment on the Preliminary Objections
On 25 March 1948 the ICJ rejected Albania’s Preliminary Objections 15 to 1
- Unilateral applications were possible not only where compulsory jurisdiction exists.
- Albania accepted with their letter of 2 July 1947
- Daxner dissented
- 7 of the judges felt that ICJ should have explicitly dismissed UK contention that SC recommendation is basis for jurisdiction