Sirdar Gurdyal Singh v Rajah of Faridkote

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date1894
Date1894
Year1894
CourtPrivy Council
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68 cases
  • United Malayan Banking Corp v Khoo Boo Hor
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 22 November 1995
    ...was no implied submission or agreement to submit to the jurisdiction of the original court.In Sirdar Gurdyal Singh v Rajah of Faridkote [1894] AC 670, at p 686, the Privy Council expressed the view that contractual submission to the jurisdiction of a foreign court `unless expressed, could n......
  • Doran v Minister for Finance
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 3 April 2001
    ...V E COMMES HOOLDING LTD 1998 IRLR 263 HILL & STAPLETONV REVENUE COMMISSIONERS 1998 IRLR 466 SEYMOUR-SMYTH 1999 IRLR 253 SIRDAR V FARIKDATE 1894 AC 670 TREATY OF ROME ART 177 ANTI-DISCRIMINATION (PAY) ACT 1974 S8(3) BRIDES V MIN FOR AGRICULTURE 1998 4 IR 250 ANTI-DISCRIMINATION (PAY) ACT 19......
  • Flightlease (Ireland) Ltd (in voluntary liquidation)
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 23 February 2012
    ...in the principle of territoriality as interpreted and applied by the English courts in the nineteenth century; see Rajah of Faridkote [1894] A.C. 670. This principle reflects the fact, one of the basic tenets of international law, that sovereign states have exclusive jurisdiction in their o......
  • Swiss Life Ag (a Company incorporated in Switzerland) v Moses Kraus (aka Moses Krausz)
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 22 July 2015
    ...at common law is that the foreign court should have jurisdiction according to the domestic rules of conflict laws: see e.g. Sirdar Gurdyal Singh v Rajah of Faridkote [1894] AC 670, 683 – 684 (PC). This is upon the basis that jurisdiction is territorial and in personam actions and orders or ......
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1 firm's commentaries
  • The Fundamentals Of A Civil Asset Recovery Action - Part 1
    • British Virgin Islands
    • Mondaq Virgin Islands
    • 27 August 2008
    ...the conflict of laws. "All jurisdiction is properly territorial," declared Lord Selborne [in Sirdar Gurdyal Singh v. Rajah of Faridkote [1894] A.C. 670, 683-684 (P.C.)], extra territorium jus dicenti, impune non paretur...In a personal action, ...a decree in absentem by a foreign court, to ......
9 books & journal articles
  • Table of cases
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Archive Conflict of Laws
    • 8 September 2010
    ...[2000] 5 W.W.R. 598, [2000] A.J. No. 212 (Q.B.)......................................... 170 Sirdar Gurdyal Singh v. Rajah of Faridkote, [1894] A.C. 670 (P.C.).................. 163 Skyway Canada Ltd. v. Clara Industrial Services Ltd. (2005), 47 C.L.R. (3d) 311, [2005] O.J. No. 4887 (S.C.J.......
  • PROBLEMS IN THE RECOGNITION AND ENFORCEMENT OF US CLASS ACTION JUDGMENTS IN SINGAPORE
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2013, December 2013
    • 1 December 2013
    ...28 See Emanuel v Symon[1908] 1 KB 302 at 309; Schibsby v Westenholz(1870) LR 6 QB 155 at 161; Sirdar Gurdyal Singh v Rajah of Faridkote[1894] AC 670 at 683–684; and RMS Veerappa Chitty v MPL Mootappa Chitty(1894) 2 SSLR 12. 29Emanuel v Symon[1908] 1 KB 302 at 309; WSG Nimbus Pte Ltd v Board......
  • The Recognition, and Res Judicata Effect, of a United States Class Actions Judgment in England: A Rebuttal of V ivendi
    • United Kingdom
    • Wiley The Modern Law Review No. 75-2, March 2012
    • 1 March 2012
    ...the foreign jurisdiction, via contractualprovision. See,eg, Nygh and Davies, n 105 above, 175–176, citing, eg, Singh vRajah of Faridkote[1894] AC670 (PC) 686, and Vogel vRA Kohnstamm Ltd [1973] 1 QB 133;and D&M, n 20 above,600. Cf Br iggs, The Conflict of Laws, n 78 above,141 (any implied ag......
  • PROCEDURAL ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES LITIGATION: THE ENGLISH LAW PERSPECTIVE
    • United States
    • FNREL - Special Institute International Resources Law and Projects (FNREL)
    • Invalid date
    ...Russell v. Smyth (1842) 9 M&W 810; Schibsby v. Westenholz (1870) L.R. 6 Q.B. 155 [56] Sirdar Gurdyal Singh v. The Rajah of Faridkote [1894] A.C. 670 [57] Adams v. Cape Industries plc [1990] Ch 433 [58] Nouvion v. Freeman (1889) 15 App. Cas. 1 [59] Grant v. Easton (1883) 13 Q.B.D. 302 [60] S......
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