Which Is The Permanent Seat Of The International Court Of Justice?

The International Court of Justice is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations.  It is also known as the World Court and its seat is at The Hague in Holland.  

It was established in 1945 under a charter of the United Nations and began work in 1946.

The constitutional document that regulates the court is the Statute of the International Court of Justice and its workload is determined by a whole range of judicial activity.  

The ICJ consists of 15 permanent judges that are elected by the United Nations General Assembly and the United Nations Security Council.  The judges are elected from a list of nominations made by national groups in the Permanent Court of Arbitration.  

Its main function is to settle legal disputes that are submitted to it by different states and to give its opinion on legal questions.  Although the number of decisions made by the court is relatively small, there has been an increased willingness to use it since the 1980s in particular from among developing nations.