The Straits Times, November 17, 2007
TOP international lawyer Sir Elihu Lauterpacht collapsed in court yesterday on the eighth day of a 12-day hearing on Pedra Branca before the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
Sir Elihu, who is 79 this year and has a heart condition, slumped in his chair while his fellow counsel for Malaysia, Prof Nicolaas Schrijver, was speaking.
The acting president of the court called the hearing to a temporary halt.
Court staff escorted Sir Elihu out of the main chamber and the court went into a 15-minute recess.
When the sitting resumed, Prof Schrijver informed the court that Sir Elihu was feeling quite well and sent his greetings.
Sir Elihu has had a distinguished career in international law, combining teaching and practice.
He is a Queen's Counsel and Honorary Professor of International Law at Cambridge University.
He studied law at Cambridge at the same time as Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew.
Knighted in 1996, Sir Elihu also represented Malaysia in the Sipadan-Ligitan case against Indonesia before the ICJ, and the reclamation case against Singapore that went before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.
LYDIA LIM
TOP international lawyer Sir Elihu Lauterpacht collapsed in court yesterday on the eighth day of a 12-day hearing on Pedra Branca before the International Court of Justice (ICJ).Sir Elihu, who is 79 this year and has a heart condition, slumped in his chair while his fellow counsel for Malaysia, Prof Nicolaas Schrijver, was speaking.
The acting president of the court called the hearing to a temporary halt.
Court staff escorted Sir Elihu out of the main chamber and the court went into a 15-minute recess.
When the sitting resumed, Prof Schrijver informed the court that Sir Elihu was feeling quite well and sent his greetings.
Sir Elihu has had a distinguished career in international law, combining teaching and practice.
He is a Queen's Counsel and Honorary Professor of International Law at Cambridge University.
He studied law at Cambridge at the same time as Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew.
Knighted in 1996, Sir Elihu also represented Malaysia in the Sipadan-Ligitan case against Indonesia before the ICJ, and the reclamation case against Singapore that went before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.
LYDIA LIM
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