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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...