“Breaking the rules? Any evidence?”
Any evidence of WHAT — that they’re capable of breaking the rules by agreeing to hear a matter in the absence of competent jurisdiction?
Certainly, you bet there is such evidence:
The classic instance is the 2004 case of the Israeli Security Barrier, for which the ICJ had had no competent jurisdiction to proceed — and which they DID, nonetheless, indeed agree to hear (and ‘rule’ upon).
In fact, it was precisely because the Court had had no proper jurisdiction to proceed w/ the matter that ONE OF ITS OWN JUDGES noted, in a dissenting opinion, that the Court had been out of order in accepting the case in the first place.
And it is ALSO for that specific reason: lack of jurisdiction — that the ruling was ultimately declared NOT BINDING, but merely ‘advisory.’
Fancy that.