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Originally the Court consisted of seven Judges. Since January 1973 this has been increased to nine.1 The Court must sit with an uneven number of its members.2 If one Judge is unable to attend, the Judge most junior in office must also abstain from taking part in the deliberations of the Court.3 Several issues may be decided by a Chamber of the Court, (see below § 649, 650), but issues which may not be delegated to a Chamber cannot be validly decided by less than seven Judges.4 This is a high quorum which might easily give rise to problems if one or more judges were to fall ill for a lengthy period of time. As the Member States what their legal systems to be represented in the Court as far as is possible, a reduction in the quorum required seems inadvisable. As yet the Court has always succeeded in achieving the required quorum.
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Valerio Grementieri, Le statut de la Cour de justice des Communautés européennes, 3 RTDE (1967), pp. 818–822.
Il Ro Suh, Voting Behaviour of National Judges in International Courts, 63 AJIL (1969), p. 228, which covers the International Court’s case law until September 1967. After that date, up to January 1975, there were six contentious cases. In none of them did a judge vote against his government’s position.
The Treaty of Rome and the English Legal Professions: Proposed Solutions, 68 Law Society Gazette (1971) p. 194, but see also Valentine, The Court of Justice of the European Communities, Stevens, London 1965, Vol. I, p. 48, note 47, who suggests that solicitors could represent the British Government or the Commission, but not a private party.
L. Neville Brown, Les Juristes d’Outre-Manche, Etudes offertes au Professeur Jacques Lambert, Lyon 1974, p. 465. Francis G. Jacobs and Andrew Durand, References to the European Court: Practice and Procedure, Butterworths 1975 (revised reprint from Atkin’s Court Forms, Vol. 17), p. 178 which includes the text of the agreement.
See Karl Wolf, Kostenrecht und Kostenpraxis des Gerichtshofs der Europäischen Gemeinschaften, 11 EuR (1976), pp. 26–28; John Temple Lang, A Referral to Luxembourg: Legal Aid, 75 The Law Society’s Gazette (1978), p. 37.
Lisbeth Stevens, The principle of linguistic equality in judicial proceedings and in the interpretation of plurilingual legal instruments: the régime linguistic in the Court of Justice of the European Communities, 62 Northwestern University Law Review (1967) pp. 701–734.
See C.W.A. Timmermans in 26 SEW (1978), p. 236.
See B.H. Ter Kuile, Procedures over ongeldige gemeenschapsnormen, 25 SEW (1977), p. 623. See also above § 619a.
Kurt H. Nadelmann, Due Process of Law before the European Court of Human Rights: the Secret of Deliberation, 66 AJIL (1972) pp. 509–525; De dissenting opinion in de rechtspraak, Reports to the Netherlands Lawyers Association, NJV, by H. Drion and O. de Savornin Lohmann, 1973.
Georges Vandersanden, Le recours en tierce opposition devant la Cour de justice des Communautés européennes, 5 CDE (1969), pp. 666–682.
See also Liliane Plouvier, Les Décisions de la Cour de Justice des Communautés Européennes et leurs Effets juridiques, Bruylant, Brussels 1975, pp. 103–107.
See Liliane Plouvier, Le Recours en revision devant la Cour de Justice des Communautés Européennes, 7 CDE (1971), pp. 428–444.
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Schermers, H.G. (1979). Structure and Operation of the Court of Justice. In: Judicial Protection in the European Communities. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6098-6_6
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