ICJ / WHALING IN THE ANTARCTICA

The International Court of Justice (ICJ), today started its hearings in the case concerning whaling in the Antarctic (Australia v. Japan; New Zealandintervening). ICJ

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:12
• Production Date: 26 June 2013
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE - ICJ
• Subject Topical: RULE OF LAW
• MAMS Id: U130626c

Description

STORY: ICJ / WHALING IN THE ANTARCTICA
TRT: 1.12
SOURCE: ICJ
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: NATS

DATELINE: 26 JUNE 2013, THE HAGUE, THE NETHERLANDS

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, courtroom with all ICJ Judges sitting
2. Close up, Australia name plate
3. Med shot, Australian delegation (main three members with, on the right side: the Agent of Australia, Bill Campbell, Q.C., General Counsel (International Law, Attorney­General's Department)
4. Wide shot, Australian delegation
5. Close up, Japan name plate
6. Med shot, Japanese delegation (main three members with, on the left side: the Agent of Japan, Koji Tsuruoka, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs)
7. Wide shot, Japanese delegation
8. Close up, New Zealand name plate
9. Wide shot, New Zealand delegation
10. Med shot, New Zealand delegation (main two members with, on the left side: the Agent of New Zealand, Dr. Penelope Ridings, International Legal Adviser, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade)
11. Med shot, New Zealand delegation (two other members)
12. Medium shot: ICJ Judges listening
13. Close up, ICJ Registrar Philippe Couvreur listening
14. Close up, ICJ President, Judge Peter Tomka, listening
15. Med up, two ICJ Judges listening: Judge Owada (left) + Judge Keith
16. Med up, three ICJ Judges listening (from l.t.r.: Judges Xue, Gaja and Bhandari)
17. Med up, two ICJ Judges listening (from l.t.r.: Judge Skotnikov + Judge Yusuf)
18 Med up, three ICJ Judges listening (from l.t.r.: Judge ad hoc Charlesworth + Judge Sebutinde + Judge Donoghue)
19. Med up, two ICJ Judges listening (from l.t.r. : Judge Trindade + Judge Bennouna)
20. Med up, two ICJ Judges listening (from l.t.r.: ICJ Vice President Sepulveda-Amor + ICJ President Peter Tomka)
21. Close up, Agent of Australia, Mr. Bill Campbell, Q.C., speaking on behalf of Australia
22. Various shots, audience listening

Storyline

Australia argued today at the international Court of Justice in the hague, Netherlands that Japan's whaling program was is in breach of obligations assumed by Japan under the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling ('ICRW'), as well as its other international obligations for the preservation of marine mammals and the marine environment.

Australia initiated its legal action at the United Nations court in 2010, noting that more than 10,000 whales had been killed since 1988 as a result of Japan's research programs.

Meanwhile New Zealand, which had been granted permission to intervene, will offer its anti-whaling "observations" the following Monday (1 July).