Dear Alex

 

Many thanks for your comments.

 

While I have not confirmed this by going back to the Libya/Malta judgment, I believe you are correct in saying that the basepoints on Filfla were discounted for purposes of computation of the provisional equidistance line. I stand corrected, in that it was not the first time the Court used the approach now followed. I’m glad I was not too definitive in saying it was an innovation… :-) As for the Nicaragua/Honduras Case, the bisector seemed to be the obvious solution (I put it forward as a suggestion it in my book in 2003). But perhaps this case cannot be of much use in making extrapolations, due to the difficulties in drawing a strict equidistance line between Nicaragua and Honduras, due to the permanent change of the basepoints at the mouth of the river.

 

Kind regards,

Nuno