Owners of the Philippine Admiral v Wallem Shipping (Hong Kong) Ltd (The Philippine Admiral)

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date05 November 1975
Date05 November 1975
CourtPrivy Council
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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
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 16 July 1981
    ... [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......
  • Argentum Exploration Ltd v Republic of South Africa
    • United Kingdom
    • Supreme Court
    • 1 January 2024
    ... ... Commodities Rice Merchandising LLC v The Owners and/or Demise Charterers of the Vessel Styliani Z ... 129 ; ( 1880 ) 5 PD 197 , CA Philippine Admiral, The [ 1977 ] AC 373 ; [ 1976 ] 2 ... pursuant to section 236 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 and of which the defendant, the ... 373 , an appeal from the Supreme Court of Hong Kong, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ... ...
  • Kuwait Airways Corporation v Iraqi Airways Company
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 10 November 2000
    ...CattermoleELR [1976] AC 249. Oropesa, TheELR [1934] P 32. Perry v Sidney Phillips & SonWLR [1982] 1 WLR 1297. Philippine Admiral, TheELR [1977] AC 373. Polemis, ReELR [1921] 3 KB 560. Princess Paley Olga v Weisz & OrsELR [1929] 1 KB 718. Racine, TheELR [1906] P 273. Ricaud v American Metal ......
  • Kuwait Airways Corporation v Iraqi Airways Company (Nos 4 & 5)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 27 March 2002
    ...in a sequence of cases from Thai-Europe Tapioca Service Ltd v Government of Pakistan [1975] 1 WLR 1485, through The Philippine Admiral [1977] AC 373.and Trendtex Trading Corporation Ltd v Central Bank of Nigeria [1977] QB 529.to The I Congreso del Partido [1983] 1 AC 244. In the first of ......
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  • Disputes With States
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq UK
    • 15 September 2021
    ...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......
  • Disputes With States
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq UK
    • 15 September 2021
    ...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......
9 books & journal articles
  • Foreign sovereign immunity in the caribbean: a case for legislative intervention
    • United States
    • Georgetown Journal of International Law No. 53-1, October 2021
    • 1 October 2021
    ...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.......
  • Table of cases
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Using International Law in Canadian Courts. Second Edition
    • 16 June 2008
    ...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) .....................................................
  • La loi sur l'immunite des etats Canadienne et la torture.
    • Canada
    • McGill Law Journal Vol. 55 No. 1, March 2010
    • 1 March 2010
    ...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.......
  • Yilin Ding, Absolute, Restrictive, or Something More: Did Beijing Choose the Right Type of Sovereign Immunity for Hong Kong?
    • United States
    • Emory University School of Law Emory International Law Reviews No. 26-2, December 2012
    • Invalid date
    ...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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