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The
difficulty
with
the
case
lies
mainly
in
the
fact
that
the
trial
took
place
almost
sixty
years
after
the
alleged
facts
.
As
noted
by
the
majority
,
the
international
legal
regulation
of
armed
conflict
has
indeed
evolved
in
the
meantime
.
The
Court
does
not
say
,
however
,
that
the
respondent
State
is
prohibited
from
trying
war
criminals
.
The
question
then
becomes
much
more
technical
and
has
to
do
with
the
application
of
law
in
time
or
in
our
case
more
specifically
with
the
rule
of
inter
-
temporal
law.[6
]
The
widely
cited
dicta
by
Judge
Huber
in
the
Island
of
Palmas
case
states
the
rule
as
follows
:
“
A
judicial
fact
must
be
appreciated
in
the
light
of
the
law
contemporary
with
it
,
and
not
of
the
law
at
the
time
such
a
dispute
in
regard
to
it
arises
or
falls
to
be
settled
.
”[7
]
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