DISSENTIKG OPINION OF JC'LIGE CHAGLA

1 regret that 1am unable to agree with the conclusion arrived at
by the majority of my colleagues. As the matter is of considerable
importance, 1 think it necessary to give the reasons for my dissent.

DISSENTING OPINION OF JUDGE KLAESTAD

In its Fifth Preliminary Objection the Government of India

DISSENTING OPINION

OF VICE-PRESIDENT BADAWI
[Translation]
1am in agreement with the decisions of the Court on Objections 1,
3, 4 and 5, without, however, subscribing to certain aspects of the
reasoning for those decisions.
1 regret, however, that 1 cannot concur in the decisions relating

to Objections 2 and 6, which 1 consider well-founded. Each of these
Objections would be sufficient in itself to exclude the jurisdiction
of the Court to deal with the dispute relating to right of passage.

DISSENTING OPINION OF JUDGE LEVI CARNEIRO

[Tra.nslatim]
I. The first question which the Court ought, logically, to consider
is the request for the joinder of the Objection to the merits, which

DZSSENTING OPINION OF JUDGE READ

DISSENTING OPINION OF JUDGE HACKWORTH

DISSENTING OPINION OF JUDGE ALVAREZ
[Translation]

1

Nature o,ithe disfiute

INDIVIDUAL OPINION OF PRESIDENT McNAIR

1 concur in the conclusion reached in the Judgment of the Court
and wish to add some words of my own, as the reasons leading me
to this conclusion are not entirely the same as those contained in
that Judgment.

1 shall begin by making some remarks of a preliminary character.
Under the Covenant of the League of Nations and the Statute of
the Permanent Court of International Justice no State was under

DISSENTING OPINION

OF JUDGE "AD HOC" OFFERHAUS
[TransZationj
I. In this case, which concerns the application of the Convention
of 1902 on guardianship, the question is one of an infant of Dutch
nationality, born on May 7th, 1945, in Sweden, the daughter of a
father of Dutch nationality and of a mother Swedish by birth, who
had acquired Dutch nationality by her marnage. The mother died

DISSENTING OPINION OF JUDGE CORDOVA

Much to my regret, 1 have to disagree with both the reasoning
and the conclusion reached by the Court in this case.
The judicial authorities of Sweden set up the guardianship of
Marie Elisabeth Boll, a minor living in Sweden but of Dutch
nationality, on March 18th, 1954. This guardianship, according
to Swedish law, only refers to the administration of the interests