Owners of the Philippine Admiral v Wallem Shipping (Hong Kong) Ltd (The Philippine Admiral)
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 05 November 1975 |
| Date | 05 November 1975 |
| Court | Privy Council |
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74 cases
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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
... [1920] P.30 C.A., purportedly applying The Parlement Belge (1880) 5 P.D. 197. In 1977 there were reported two landmark cases� The Philippine Admiral [1977] A.C. 373 and Trendtex Trading Corporation Ltd. v. Central Bank of Nigeria [1977] Q.B. 529 C.A. In The Philippine Admiral the Judic......
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Belhaj v Straw MP (United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture)
...the absolute character of these rules with a growing judicial acceptance that commercial transactions should not attract immunity ( The Philippine Admiral [1977] AC 373; Trendtex Trading Corporation v. Central Bank of Nigeria [1977] QB 55 34. The modern law on state immunity is to be foun......
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Ghanem Al-Masarir v Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
...had replaced the absolute theory. 54 That recognition first occurred in a judgment of the Privy Council in The Philippine Admiral [1977] AC 373 delivered in November 1975; though this in its terms was limited to actions in rem. It was the judgment of Lord Denning MR in Trendtex Trading Corp......
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Daraydan Holdings Ltd and Others v Solland International Ltd and Others
...del Partido [1978] QB 500, at 519, Robert Goff J said that he agreed with every word in that passage, and would have followed The Philippine Admiral [1977] AC 373 (PC) (denying sovereign immunity to state trading ships) in preference to The Porto Alexandre [1920] P 30 had he not already ......
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2 firm's commentaries
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Disputes With States
...This was the case of The Philippine Admiral (Philippine Admiral (Owners) Appellants v Wallem Shipping (Hong Kong) Ltd. and Another [1977] A.C. 373). The Privy Council described developments in the law since the Second World War in the following "There is no doubt - as was indeed conceded by......
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Disputes With States
...This was the case of The Philippine Admiral (Philippine Admiral (Owners) Appellants v Wallem Shipping (Hong Kong) Ltd. and Another [1977] A.C. 373). The Privy Council described developments in the law since the Second World War in the following "There is no doubt - as was indeed conceded by......
11 books & journal articles
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Conflict of Laws in Bermuda
...of the Navy of the United States of America [1986] Bda LR 78. 73 Owners of the Philippine Admiral v Wallem Shipping (Hong Kong) Ltd [1977] AC 373 (PC). 74 See Trendtex v Central Bank of Nigeria [1977] QB 529 (CA); Playa Larga (Owners of cargo lately on board) v I Congresso del Partido (Owne......
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Table of Cases
...Ltd v Bracco (Nos 1 and 2) [1992] 2 AC 443, [1992] 2 WLR 621, [1992] 2 All ER 193, HL 23.47, 23.86 Owens Bank Ltd v Etoile Commerciale SA [1977] AC 373, [1976] 2 WLR 214, [1976] 1 All ER 78, P 23.47, 23.86–23.87 Owners of Philippine Admiral, The (owners of) v Wallem Shipping (Hong Kong) Ltd......
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Foreign sovereign immunity in the caribbean: a case for legislative intervention
...approval, though holding, on the facts, that there had been a waiver of immunity by the foreign sovereign). 9. The Philippine Admiral [1976] 2 WLR 214 (PC) (U.K.). 10. Trendtex Trading Corp. v. Cent. Bank of Nigeria [1977] QB 529 (U.K.). 11. Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976, Pub. L.......
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Table of cases
...65–66 he Parlement Belge [1878–9] 4 PD 129 ..................................................... 231–32 he Philippine Admiral [1977] AC 373 (PC) ............................................. 190, 217 he Queen v. Burah (1878) 3 App Cas 889 (PC) .....................................................
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