Sovereign Immunity in UK Law
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Trendtex v Central Bank of Nigeria
... ... country on the letter of credit: because they are entitled to sovereign immunity The plaintiffs dispute this on the ground that this is an ... ...
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Maclaine Watson & Company Ltd v International Tin Council
... ... up jurisdiction of the English court; and, secondly, that the immunity from "suit and legal process" conferred on the ITC by paragraph 6(1) of ... in words on which it is impossible to improve: "Sovereign states are free, if they wish, to carry on a collective enterprise through ... ...
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Playa Larga (Owners of cargo lately laden on board) v I Congreso del Partido (Owners); Marble Islands (Owners of cargo lately laden on board) v I Congreso del Partido (Owners); I Congreso del Partido
... ... importance as to the scope of the "restrictive" theory of state immunity as it existed in the law of this country in 1973�75 when the relevant ... on government direction on the one hand, and a state, exercising sovereign functions, on the other. This distinction is crucial in relation to these ... ...
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Kuwait Airways Corporation v Iraqi Airways Company (Nos 4 & 5)
... ... The House also decided that IAC could not claim state immunity regarding the acts of which KAC was complaining, in so far as they were ... as its own did not constitute acts done in the exercise of sovereign immunity. KAC then continued the proceedings against IAC alone ... 6 ... ...
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R v Bow Street Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate, ex parte Pinochet Ugarte (No. 3)
... ... stages of this case–is a former head of state entitled to sovereign immunity from arrest or prosecution in the U.K. for acts of ... ...
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Maclaine Watson & Company Ltd v International Tin Council
... ... specific performance of a treaty or to award damages against a sovereign state for breach of a treaty or to invent laws or misconstrue legislation ... the laws of the United Kingdom but the International Tin Council (Immunity and Privileges) Order 1972 ( S.I. 1972 No. 120 ) made under the ... ...
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Belhaj and another v Straw and Others; Rahmatullah v Ministry of Defence and another (No 2)
... ... 6 IV State immunity 9 ... It is an exercise of sovereign power. Obvious examples are making war and peace, making treaties with ... ...
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Benkharbouche v Embassy of the Republic of Sudan (Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Others intervening)
... ... at issue on this appeal is whether two provisions of the State Immunity Act 1978 are consistent with the European Convention on Human Rights ... : "The courts of a country will not implead a foreign sovereign, that is, they will not by their process make him against his will a party ... ...
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Buttes Gas and Oil Company v Hammer; Buttes Gas and Oil Company v Hammer (No. 3)
... ... of nations to order discovery without the consent of the foreign sovereign concerned- in casu the Ruler of Sharjah; (ii) by Donaldson and Brightman ... should recognise a category of United Kingdom public interest immunity relating to copies of confidential documents of a foreign sovereign (the ... ...
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Rahimtoola v Nizam of Hyderabad [England, House of Lords.]
... ... , by whatever name he is called, can be identified with the Sovereign State, his task is easy: he need prove no more in order to stay the action ... Nizam and there is no need to consider any question of sovereign immunity. This argument, as I say, was successful in the Court of Appeal, but I ... ...
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