Certain Activities Carried Out by Nicaragua in the Border Area (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua)


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19 November 2010
Costa Rica institutes proceedings against Nicaragua and requests the Court to indicate provisional measures
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7 December 2010
Proceedings instituted by the Republic of Costa Rica against the Republic of Nicaragua - Request for the indication of provisional measures - The Court to hold public hearings from Tuesday 11 to Thursday 13 January 2011
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13 January 2011
Certain Activities Carried Out by Nicaragua in the Border Area (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua) - Conclusion of the public hearings on Costa Rica's Request for the indication of provisional measures
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23 February 2011
Certain Activities Carried Out by Nicaragua in the Border Area (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua) - Request for the indication of provisional measures - The Court to deliver its Order on Tuesday 8 March 2011 at 3 p.m.
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8 March 2011
Certain Activities Carried Out by Nicaragua in the Border Area (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua) - Request for the indication of provisional measures - The Court requests the Parties to refrain from sending to, or maintaining in the disputed territory, including the caño, any personnel, whether civilian, police or security; it authorizes Costa Rica, in certain specific circumstances, to dispatch civilian personnel there charged with the protection of the environment; and it calls on the Parties not to aggravate or extend the dispute before the Court or make it more difficult to resolve
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14 April 2011
Certain Activities Carried Out by Nicaragua in the Border Area (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua) - Fixing of time-limits for the filing of the initial pleadings
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23 April 2013
Certain Activities Carried Out by Nicaragua in the Border Area (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua)   Construction of a Road in Costa Rica along the San Juan River (Nicaragua v. Costa Rica) - The Court joins the proceedings in the two cases
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1 May 2013
Certain Activities Carried Out by Nicaragua in the Border Area (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua)   Construction of a Road in Costa Rica along the San Juan River (Nicaragua v. Costa Rica) - The Court rules on the counter-claims submitted by Nicaragua: it finds that the first claim is without object, that the second and third claims are inadmissible and that there is no need for it to entertain the fourth claim
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25 July 2013
Certain Activities Carried Out by Nicaragua in the Border Area (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua) - Construction of a Road in Costa Rica along the San Juan River (Nicaragua v. Costa Rica) - The Court finds that the circumstances, as they now present themselves to the Court, are not such as to require the exercise of its power to modify the measures indicated in the Order of 8 March 2011 and reaffirms those measures
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25 September 2013
Costa Rica requests the Court to indicate new provisional measures in the case concerning Certain Activities Carried Out by Nicaragua in the Border Area (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua)
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2 October 2013
Certain Activities Carried Out by Nicaragua in the Border Area (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua) - Request for the indication of new provisional measures - The Court to hold public hearings from Monday 14 to Thursday 17 October 2013
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7 October 2013
Certain Activities Carried Out by Nicaragua in the Border Area (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua) - Request for the indication of new provisional measures - Admission procedures, video streaming and practical information for the media
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15 October 2013
Certain Activities Carried Out by Nicaragua in the Border Area (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua)   Construction of a Road in Costa Rica along the San Juan River (Nicaragua v. Costa Rica) - Nicaragua requests the Court to indicate provisional measures
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17 October 2013
Certain Activities Carried Out by Nicaragua in the Border Area (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua) - Conclusion of the public hearings on Costa Rica’s Request for the indication of new provisional measures
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21 October 2013
Construction of a Road in Costa Rica along the San Juan River (Nicaragua v. Costa Rica) - Certain Activities Carried Out by Nicaragua in the Border Area (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua) - Request for the indication of provisional measures filed by Nicaragua on 11 October 2013 - The Court to hold public hearings from Tuesday 5 to Friday 8 November 2013
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19 November 2013
Certain Activities Carried Out by Nicaragua in the Border Area (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua)   Construction of a Road in Costa Rica along the San Juan River (Nicaragua v. Costa Rica) - Request for the indication of new provisional measures filed by Costa Rica - The Court to deliver its Order on Friday 22 November 2013 at 3 p.m.
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22 November 2013
Certain Activities Carried Out by Nicaragua in the Border Area (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua) - Construction of a Road in Costa Rica along the San Juan River (Nicaragua v. Costa Rica) - The Court finds that Nicaragua must refrain from any dredging and other activities in the disputed territory and must, in particular, refrain from work of any kind on the two new caños, and that it must fill the trench on the beach north of the eastern caño within two weeks
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16 February 2015
Certain Activities Carried Out by Nicaragua in the Border Area (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua)   Construction of a Road in Costa Rica along the San Juan River (Nicaragua v. Costa Rica) - The Court to hold public hearings from Tuesday 14 April to Friday 1 May 2015
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30 March 2015
Certain Activities Carried Out by Nicaragua in the Border Area (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua)   Construction of a Road in Costa Rica along the San Juan River (Nicaragua v. Costa Rica) - Changes to the schedule for the public hearings
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10 April 2015
Certain Activities Carried Out by Nicaragua in the Border Area (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua)   Construction of a Road in Costa Rica along the San Juan River (Nicaragua v. Costa Rica) - Examination of experts during the public hearings
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1 May 2015
Certain Activities Carried Out by Nicaragua in the Border Area (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua) Construction of a Road in Costa Rica along the San Juan River (Nicaragua v. Costa Rica) - Conclusion of the public hearings − The Court to begin its deliberation
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4 December 2015
Certain Activities Carried Out by Nicaragua in the Border Area (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua) - Construction of a Road in Costa Rica along the San Juan River (Nicaragua v. Costa Rica) - The Court to deliver its Judgment on Wednesday 16 December 2015 at 3 p.m.
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16 December 2015
Certain Activities Carried Out by Nicaragua in the Border Area (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua) - The Court finds that Nicaragua has violated Costa Rica's territorial sovereignty and navigational rights, as well as the Court's Order of 8 March 2011 indicating provisional measures, but that it did not breach procedural or substantive environmental obligations through its dredging of the San Juan River
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7 February 2017
Certain Activities Carried Out by Nicaragua in the Border Area (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua) - The Court fixes time-limits for the filing of written pleadings on the question of compensation
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20 July 2017
Certain Activities Carried Out by Nicaragua in the Border Area (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua) - Question of compensation - The President of the Court authorizes the submission of a Reply by Costa Rica and a Rejoinder by Nicaragua and fixes time-limits for the filing of these pleadings
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18 January 2018
Certain Activities Carried Out by Nicaragua in the Border Area (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua) - Question of compensation - The Court to deliver its Judgment on Friday 2 February 2018 at 10 a.m.
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2 February 2018
Certain Activities Carried Out by Nicaragua in the Border Area (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua) - Question of compensation - The Court fixes the amount of compensation due from Nicaragua to Costa Rica
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23 March 2018
Certain Activities Carried Out by Nicaragua in the Border Area (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua) - Question of compensation - Nicaragua transfers the total amount of compensation awarded to Costa Rica
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