Compania Naviera Vascongado v Steamship "Cristina"

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date14 March 1938
Date14 March 1938
Docket NumberCase No. 86
CourtHouse of Lords
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  • Stolt Kestrel BV v Sener Petrol Denizcilik Ticaret as
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 15 October 2015
    ...of the sister ships would "implead" their owners in the following proceedings and she relied on a passage in the speech of Lord Atkin in The Cristina [1938] AC 485 to the following effect:- "These being the facts I come to the conclusion that when the plaintiffs issued a writ in which they......
  • Thai-Europe Tapioca Service Ltd v Pakistan (The Harmattan) (Hanseat II)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 15 July 1975
    ...Convention of 1926 and to the criticism to which that case has been subjected in the House of lords in The Cristine 1938 A. C. 485 and pages 493-6 and 319-120 and elsewhere. Likewise if a foreign government owns a motor vehicle here and sends it to a garage here to be repaired, the repaire......
  • Brani Island, Owners of Cargo Laden on Board; Kuso Island, Owners of v; The Kusu Island
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • Invalid date
  • The "Kusu Island"
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 14 September 1989
    ...... PD 197 was approved by the House of Lords in The Cristina . [1938] 1 Ll L Rep 147. In that case, the plaintiffs who ... writ in which they constituted as defendants the steamship or vessel Cristina and all persons claiming an interest ......
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  • CONTEMPT ORDERS AND JUDICIAL “ATTACHMENT” OF EQUITABLE PROPERTY
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2017, December 2017
    • 1 December 2017
    ...the surrender of the performance bond. 6 Paras 9–25. 7 Paras 26–57. 8 The language is taken from Compania Naviera Vascongado v SS Cristina[1938] AC 485 at 490, where Lord Atkin described two propositions of international law as being “engrafted into our domestic law”. 9 Paras 58–70. 10 Afte......
  • Head of state immunity as sole executive lawmaking.
    • United States
    • Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law Vol. 44 No. 4, October 2011
    • 1 October 2011
    ...173, at 39-40 (discussing cases involving state-owned commercial vessels); Recent Case, Compania Naviera Vascongado v. S.S. Christina, [1938] A.C. 485 (H.L.) (Appeal Taken from Eng.), 39 COLUM. L. REV. 510, 512 (1939) ("After the World War there was a great increase of state-owned merchant ......
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    • Canada
    • Irwin Books International & Transnational Criminal Law. Third Edition
    • 25 June 2020
    ...Crim Ct) ........ 718, 720, 728, 729, 731, 732, 733, 735 Chui. See also Katanga and Chui Compania Naviera Vascongado v SS Cristina, [1938] AC 485 (HL).................... 63 Cox v Canada, Comm No 539/1993, UN Doc CCPR/C/52/D/539/1993, 9 December 1994 (Human Rights Committee) .....................
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    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Using International Law in Canadian Courts. Second Edition
    • 16 June 2008
    ...210, 213 he Annapolis — he Johanna Stoll (1861) Lush. 295, 167 ER 128 .........137, 161 he Christina [1938] AC 485 (HL) ............................................................... 65–66 he Parlement Belge [1878–9] 4 PD 129 ..................................................... 231–32 he ......
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