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

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtQueen's Bench Division
Judgment Date28 January 1977
Date28 January 1977

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    • House of Lords
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  • Sengupta v Republic of India
    • United Kingdom
    • Employment Appeal Tribunal
    • 17 November 1982
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    • Supreme Court (Canada)
    • 18 March 2014
    ...an individual) can perform (Goff, J. (as he then was) and Lord Wilberforce articulated this test in the case of 1o Congreso del Partido (1978) QB 500 at 528 and (1983) AC 244 at 268, respectively). This view is underscored by the increasing realization that State-related motives are not the......
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  • Arrest of Ships in Hong Kong
    • Hong Kong
    • Mondaq Hong Kong
    • 22 September 2010
    ...time the writ is issued. The beneficial owner One question is: what is the meaning of "beneficial owner"? In The I Congreso del Partido [1978] 1 QB 500 Robert Goff J held at 538E-F that the words "beneficial ownership" in AJA 1956 referred "only to cases of equitable ownership, whether or n......
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  • IN PERSONAM LIABILITY, BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP AND THE ACTION IN REM
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1994, December 1994
    • 1 December 1994
    ...Court of Appeal comprised Yong C.J., Thean and Chan J.J. 39 [1977] 2 M.L.J. 129. 40 Ibid., at 130. 41 See “The I Congreso Del Partido”[1978] 1 Q.B. 500 at 538E where Goff J. said that “the words ‘beneficially owned as respects all the shares therein’ refer only to cases of equitable ownersh......
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    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2017, December 2017
    • 1 December 2017
    ...[124]. 20 The Bunga Melati 5 [2012] 4 SLR 546 at [124]. 21 The Bunga Melati 5 [2012] 4 SLR 546 at [128]–[129]. 22 [2000] 1 NZLR 37. 23 [1978] 1 QB 500. 24The Min Rui[2016] 5 SLR 667 at [5]. 25I Congreso del Partido[1978] 1 QB 500 at 536; see also The Bunga Melati 5[2011] 4 SLR 1017 at [86].......
  • CLAIMS FALLING WITHIN SECTION 3(1)(H) OF THE HIGH COURT (ADMIRALTY JURISDICTION) ACT AND THE RIGHT OF ARREST
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1997, December 1997
    • 1 December 1997
    ...[1977] 1 MLJ 49 at 51. Italics added by the writer. 86 Malaysia and Singapore Securities Cases 1991—1993, 95,494 at 95,499. 87 Ibid. 88 [1978] 1 QB 500 at 538. 89 See [1978] 1 QB 500 at 542. 90 The Permina 108 [1977] 1 MLJ 49. 91 [1982] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 225. 92 [1988] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 411. 93 [19......