While the working methods of the International Court of Justice have been criticized in the past for their excessive slowness and formalism, the reforms introduced by the Court in the past two decades have led to considerable improvement. Recently, the ‘clients’ of the Court have expressed paradoxical desires for the Court to be more assertive in the management of the written and oral procedure and, at the same time, more responsive to the procedural views of the parties. Moreover, there are many requests for more interaction between the Bench and the parties and their counsel. If the good administration of justice rests on a careful blend between, on the one hand, formalism and solemnity, and, on the other, flexibility and dynamism, this cannot be achieved at the expense of the equality of the parties or of the procedural predictability. Hence, it may be desirable to amend the Rules in order to improve and modernize the procedure.

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法院的工作方法Les méthodes de travail de la Cour

虽然国际法院的工作方法过去因过于缓慢和形式主义而受到批评，但国际法院在过去二十年中进行的改革已经取得了长足的进步。最近，法院的“客户”表达了一种矛盾的愿望，即希望法院在管理书面和口头程序时更加自信，同时对当事人的程序观点做出更积极的回应。此外，有许多要求在法官席与当事方及其律师之间进行更多互动。如果良好的司法行政依赖于一方面形式主义和庄严性，另一方面是灵活性和活力之间的仔细融合，那么就不能以牺牲当事人的平等或程序的可预测性为代价来实现这一目标。 . 因此，