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Significant Work

Mr. Dillard feels that while the importance
of the work of the Court should not be
exaggerated it is yet one of the critically
significant institutions established since World
War I.

"Its importance is not to be judged by the
number of cases and advisory opinions it
renders," he declared, "but by their tendency
to reduce tension and to siphon off issues
which make a later political settlement .
Some of the cases," he continued, "are very
complex and the records are voluminous. The
judgement and dissenting opinions in the South
West Africa Case, for example, ran to over 500
pages and the record of the Barcelona Traction
Case runs to some 17,000 printed pages."