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17. By letters dated 23 April 2013, the Registrar informed the Parties that the Court had
decided that they could submit written statements in response to the statement submitted by each of
the other Party’s experts, and had fixed 31 May 2013 as the time-limit for such submission. Within
the time-limit thus fixed, Australia submitted such statements in response from the two experts it
would call at the hearing, and Japan submitted certain observations in response on the statements
by the two experts to be called by Australia.
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18. In accordance with Article 53, paragraph 2, of the Rules of Court, the Court, after
ascertaining the views of the Parties, decided that copies of the pleadings and documents annexed
would be made accessible to the public on the opening of the oral proceedings. After consulting
the Parties and New Zealand, the Court decided that the same should apply to the written
observations of the intervening State and of the Parties on the subject-matter of the intervention, as
well as to the written statements of experts called to give evidence in the case, and the written
statements and observations in response.
19. Public hearings were held between 26 June and 16 July 2013, at which the Court heard
the oral arguments and replies of:
For Australia:
For Japan:
For New Zealand:
Mr. Bill Campbell,
Mr. Justin Gleeson,
Ms Laurence Boisson de Chazournes,
Mr. Henry Burmester,
Mr. James Crawford,
Mr. Philippe Sands,
Mr. Mark Dreyfus.
Mr. Koji Tsuruoka,
Mr. Alain Pellet,
Mr. Payam Akhavan,
Mr. Shotaro Hamamoto,
Mr. Alan Boyle,
Mr. Vaughan Lowe,
Ms Yukiko Takashiba,
Mr. Yuji Iwasawa.
Ms Penelope Ridings,
Mr. Christopher Finlayson.