No. The ICJ (International Court of Justice) can only hear disputes between sovereign States. Malaysia is a State; we, obviously, aren’t. Private parties such as us have no standing to bring an ICJ claim.
In any event, this isn’t a case about where a maritime boundary should be drawn. It’s a case about how much one party owes to another under the terms of a long-term contract between them, which one party breached. That is also why international courts don’t accept Malaysia’s defense that it doesn’t have to face legal process because it can claim sovereign immunity. If a government is in a commercial contract, it can’t hide behind ‘sovereign immunity’, whether it be our dispute or a supplier dispute with a Malaysian ministry or Petronas.
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