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Author: Raelee Toh

21 May

Did the ICJ Wash its Hands out of the Controversies Behind the Clean Hands Doctrine in its 2024 Judgment on the Application of the ICSFT and CERD (Ukraine v Russia) (Merits)?

[Raelee Toh is an undergraduate law student at the Singapore Management University Yong Pung How School of Law] Introduction   Although there are several conceptions of the clean hands doctrine (for example, ex turpi causa (“an action cannot arise from a dishonourable cause”), ex injuria jus non oritur (“illegal acts do not create law”) and ex delicto non orituractio (“an unlawful act...

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