Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 April 2017
* Excerpted text of opinion.
† Caption by the Court.
1 Judges McNair and Bead wrote separate opinions concurring on the remaining points but dissenting from the portion relating to the exercise of supervisory functions by, and making of reports to, the United Nations.
2 Judges Alvarez, DeVisscher, Krylov, Zoričić, Badawi Pasha, and Vice Pres. Guerrero. The first three wrote dissenting opinions, and the others declared their inability to concur in the opinion that the Charter imposed no legal obligation on South Africa to place the Territory under the Trusteeship System, sharing in general in the views expressed by Judge DeVisscher instead.