Ambatielos case (preliminary objection) Judgment of 1 July 1952

The proceedings in the Ambatielos Case (Preliminary Objection), between Greece and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland had been instituted by an Application by the Hellenic Government which, having taken up the case of one of its nationals, the shipowner Ambatielos, prayed the Court to declare that the claim which the latter had made against the Government of the United Kingdom must, in accordance with the terms of the Treaties concluded in 1886 and in 1926 between Greece and the United Kingdom, be submitted to arbitration. The Government of the United Kingdom, on the other hand, contended that the Court lacked jurisdiction to decide on that question. In its Judgment the Court found by ten votes to five that it had jurisdiction to decide whether the United Kingdom was under an obligation to submit: to arbitration the difference as to the validity of the Ambatielos claim, in so far as this claim was based on the Anglo-Hellenic Treaty of 1886.

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