The ICJ is the UN's highest judicial organ and settles disputes between states.
At the time, both the US and Israel rejected the ICJ's authority to issue an opinion on the subject.
But the ICJ ruled that the procedural bar doctrine should not be used to deny substantive reviews of Vienna Convention claims.
The arbitration panels can also be relied upon to look to rulings by the ICJ or ITLOS to inform their own decisions.
In May the International Court of Justice (ICJ), based in The Hague, began deliberating on a case between Colombia and Nicaragua over a piece of the Caribbean.
In a ruling that set Mr Bush at loggerheads with his home state, the president had ordered Texas to comply with an ICJ ruling made in 2004 that all the convicted men should get new hearings.
Argentina lodged a complaint before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in 2006, arguing that Uruguay had broken the terms of a 1975 treaty regulating the use of the River Uruguay which forms the border between them.
Edgar Kavu-Lavu from the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) - one of the civil society groups to bring the case to court - says they won't appeal as there is not enough time before the elections are held.
In a ruling issued in April, the ICJ said that Uruguay had breached its procedural obligations to inform Argentina of its plans but had not violated its environmental obligations under the treaty and therefore the mill could continue operations.
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