Sultan of Johore v Abubakar

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date22 April 1952
Date22 April 1952
Docket NumberCase No. 38
CourtPrivy Council
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  • Re Westerling
    • Malaysia
    • High Court (Malaysia)
    • 1 January 1951
  • Madzimbamuto v Lardner-Burke
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • 23 July 1968
    ...Third Edition, Vol. 7, paragraphs 593–603 at pp. 279–286. Thus, in the case of Sultan of Johore v. Abubakar Tunku Aris BendaharELR (1952), A.C. 318,[1] their Lordships had before them a letter from the Secretary of State to the Rulers of the Malay States in which it was categorically assert......
  • Owners of the Philippine Admiral v Wallem Shipping (Hong Kong) Ltd (The Philippine Admiral)
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • 5 November 1975
    ...jurisdiction of the state in which the action is brought which was left open in Sultan of Johore v. Abubakar Tunku Aris BendaharELRINTL [1952] A.C. 318, 343[8] and (b) the ‘trust fund cases,’ in which the court has not been deterred from administering a trust subject to its jurisdiction by ......
  • Rahimtoola v Nizam of Hyderabad [England, House of Lords.]
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 7 November 1957
    ...of his own or any other country without his consent. These cases have received a check lately by the case of the Sultan of Johore v. Abubakar Tunku A rig Bendahar and Others [1952] A.C. 318 at pages 343-4, where the Privy Council rejected the notion that there was any absolute rule about "n......
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3 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
    ...to sovereigns to allow them to work for the best good of the state.” Id. at 170. 7. 8. See, e.g. , Sultan of Johore v. Abubakar [1952] 1 All ER 1261 (citing The Parlement Belge with evident approval, though holding, on the facts, that there had been a waiver of immunity by the foreign sover......
  • La loi sur l'immunite des etats Canadienne et la torture.
    • Canada
    • McGill Law Journal Vol. 55 No. 1, March 2010
    • 1 March 2010
    ...du Conseil prive, sur laquelle siegeait Lord Denning, n'etait pas convaincue que >: Sultan of Johore v. Abubakar Tunku Aris Bendahar, [1952] A.C. 318 a la p. 343, [1952] 1 All E.R. 1261 (H.L.). Plus tard, Lord Denning nie expressement l'existence de l'immunite absolue : Rahimtoola v. Nizam ......
  • ENGLISH STATUTES IN SINGAPORE COURTS
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1991, December 1991
    • 1 December 1991
    ...& 37 Vic. c.66. 111 See infra, the Part entitled “Applicable By Singapore Reference”. 112 (1942) 4 M.C. 320. 113 Ibid., at p. 328. 114 [1952] A.C. 318. 115 Ibid., at p. 342. 116 Proclamation No. 1 (1945). 117 [1950] M.L.J. 52. 118 Ibid., at p. 53. 119 Regulation No. 30 (1945). 120 Supra, no......

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