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The European Court of Justice (GC): Apostolides v. Orams

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Thomas D. Grant
Thomas D. Grant*
Affiliation:
Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law
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International Legal Materials , Volume 48 , Issue 4 , August 2009 , pp. 788 - 803
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2009

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* This text was reproduced and reformatted from the text available at the Court of Justice of the European Communities website: (visited August 17, 2009) <http://curia.europa.eu/jurisp/cgi-bin/form.pl?lang=en&Submit=Rechercher&alldocs=alldocs&docj=docj&docop=docop&docor=docor&docjo=docjo&numaff=C-420/07&datefs=&datefe=&nomusuel=&domaine=&mots=&resmax=100.

1 See Case C-420/07, Apostolides v. Orams, ¶¶ 45-46, available at <http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:62007J0420:EN:NOT [hereinafter Judgment].

2 See, e.g., S.C. Res. 360, U.N. Doc. S/RES/360 (Aug. 16, 1974).

3 S.C. Res. 541, ¶ 7, U.N. Doc. S/RES/541 (Nov. 18, 1983).

4 See Claire Palley An International Relations Debacle: The UN Secretary-General’s Mission of Good Offices in Cyprus, 1999-2004, 216 (2005).

5 Judgment, supra note 1, ¶ 20.

6 Id. ¶ 29.

7 Id. ¶ 30; Orams v. Apostolides, [2006] EWHC 2226 (QB).

8 See Judgment, supra note 1, ¶ 35.

9 Id.

10 Id. ¶ 48.

11 Xenides-Arestis v. Turkey, 45 I.L.M. 657, 662-63 (2006) (referring to Scozzari and Giunta v. Italy, App. No. 39221/ 98 and 41963/98, 2000-VIII Eur. Ct. H.R., § 249, and Broniowski v. Poland, 2004-V Eur. Ct. H.R. § 192).

12 Law for the Compensation, Exchange and Restitution of Immovable Properties, Law No. 67/2005, adopted by the Republican Assembly of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, entered into force on Dec. 22, 2009, available at <http://www.internal-displacement.org/8025708F004CE90B/(httpDocuments)/2399D9EEB59AFE04C12573810035F815/$file/LAW+67+2005.pdf. 13 Case C-420/07, Apostolides v. Orams, Opinion of Advocate General Kokott (Dec. 18, 2008).

14 The règime was meant to induce South Africa into compliance, not to punish the people of Namibia. See Legal Consequences for States of the Continued Presence of South Africa in Namibia (South West Africa) Notwithstanding Security Council Resolution 276 (1970), Advisory Opinion, 1971 I.C.J. 16, 55- 6 (June 21).

15 See, e.g., Convention (No. IV) Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War art. 53, Aug. 12, 1949, 6 U.S.T. 3516, 75 U.N.T.S. 287.

16 See Xenides-Arestis, supra note 11, ¶ 11; Loizidou v. Turkey, Preliminary Objection, 310 Eur. Ct. H.R. (ser. A) ¶¶ 11, 43, 53, 100 (1995).

17 For more information on the developments in the northern part of Cyprus, see Zaim M.Necatigil, The Cyprus Question and the Turkish Position in International Law 65-8, 104-7, 328 (2d ed. 1993).

18 See Treaty of Guarantee, London, Aug. 16, 1960, 382 U.N.T.S. 3.

19 The Queen’s Bench Division, which had held the Cypriot judgment not to be enforceable in England and Wales, did mention the United Kingdom’s role in the 1960 arrangements, though only in passing as an historical matter. See Orams, supra note 7, ¶¶ 3, 5.