Sovereign Immunity in UK Law
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Ships, sovereign immunity and the subtleties of the Brussels I regulation: Case C-641/18 LG and others v. Rina SpA, Ente Registro Italiano Navale: Ships, sovereign immunity and the subtleties of Brussels I: Rina
More than 1000 passengers on a Panamanian-registered ferry drowned in the Red Sea. Some survivors and relatives of some of the victims sued the classification and certification ship society which h...
- The Modern Law of Sovereign Immunity
- NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN THE LAW OF SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY
- Review Essay: Sovereign Immunity: Law in an Unequal World
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Acts of State, State Immunity, and Judicial Review in the United States
... ... KEYWORDS ... Sovereign immunity; Article III; judicial restraint; ATCA; territoriality principle; JASTA; merits-based approach ... CONTENTS ... I. IntRoductIon ... ...
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The Police Service and Liability Insurance: Responsible Policing
The United States Constitution, as well as national values, centre on individual (human) rights. Conservatives, liberals, and independents agree that police officers must at times resort to physica...... ... physical force if they are to carry out fully their ... sovereign immunity. It’s time to require all police ... official ... ...
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Judicial Reaffirmation of the Doctrine of Adoption
... ... the Central Bank of Nigeria could successfully plead sovereign immunity from suit. The plaintiff, Trendtex Trading Corporation ... ...
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Lawsuits
... ... the real world, especially with vulture fund creditors buying up sovereign distressed debt, recourse to lawsuits is the only method through which ... that can be raised by the sovereign debtor, such as sovereign immunity, the doctrine of international comity, and champerty and mainte nance ... ...
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The Immunity Conundrum
... ... last century and in the early part of the twenty-first century, there has been a plethora of publications that proclaimed the end of the sovereign state or sovereignty as we knew it. Francis Fukuyama famously announced the ‘End of History’ in 1992, postulating that with the end of the Cold ... ...
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Taxing Sovereign Wealth Funds: Looking to Singapore for Inspiration
The taxation of sovereign wealth funds is an important issue for governments as they are both investors and need to attract investment. Operating in global markets, how these funds are taxed can af...... ... taxation of sovereign wealth funds from other investment funds is the fact that they are sovereign, and therefore the notion of sovereign immunity is an important consideration. The doctrine of sovereign immunity is entrenched in public international law. This is generally defined in terms of ... ...
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