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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73 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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Trendtex v Central Bank of Nigeria
... ... time there was serious congestion of shipping in the ports of Nigeria to which the cement had ... of Lord Cross of Chelsea in The Philippine Admiral [ 1976 ] 2 W.L. R. 214 , 232, P.C ... ...
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Harrington v United States of America
...is between matters jure imperii and matters jure gestionis. The “restrictive” theory which through the decisions in The Philippine Admiral[1977] AC 373 and I Congreso del Partido[1983] 1 AC 244 has been adopted into the laws of the United Kingdom calls for this distinction to be made, but i......
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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......
10 books & journal articles
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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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La loi sur l'immunite des etats Canadienne et la torture.
...of Nigeria, [1977] 2 W.L.R. 356, [1977] 1 All E.R. 881 (C.A.) [Trendtex avec renvois aux W.L.R.]. (23) Voir Philippine Admiral (1975), [1977] A.C. 373, [1976] 2 W.L.R. (24) (R.-U.), 1978, c. 33 [SIA]. (25) 16 mai 1972, S.T.E. 74. (26) Jack B. Tate, > (1952) 26 Dep't St. Bull. 984. (27) 28U.......
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Yilin Ding, Absolute, Restrictive, or Something More: Did Beijing Choose the Right Type of Sovereign Immunity for Hong Kong?
...at 276.Id. at 261 (Lord Wilberforce) (“I would unhesitatingly affirm as part of English law the advance made by The Philippine Admiral [1977] A.C. 373 with the reservation that the decision was perhaps unnecessarilyrestrictive in, apparently, confining the departure made to actions in rem.”......
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