Thus,fears that involving yet another tribunal in maritime boundary delimitation risks fragmenting the international jurisprudence should have been allayed
by this case. The novel points in the case—delimitation of the continental shelf
beyond 200 miles and the legal status of the grey zone–were dealt with by the
ITLOS in a reasonable and equitable manner. As suggested above,the approach
of the ITLOS to delimiting the continental shelf beyond 200 miles seems justifiable in the particular circumstances of this case,but may not be so in future
cases. In spite of its considerable length (506 numbered paragraphs),there are
places where the judgment would have benefitted from fuller reasoning. How-ever,that criticism may also be made of a number of previous maritime boundary delimitation cases.