The Arantzazu Mendi

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date23 February 1939
Date23 February 1939
Docket NumberCase No. 25
CourtHouse of Lords
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  • Civil Aeronautics Administration v Singapore Airlines Ltd
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 14 January 2004
    ...of particular interest to note that in the later case of Government of the Republic of Spain v SS “Arantzazu Mendi” (The Arantzazu Mendi) [1939] AC 256, the more expansive approach advocated by Lord Sumner in Duff Development was expressly disapproved of by the entire quorum of the House. L......
  • North South Yacht Vacations Ltd v The Owners and Persons Interested in the Ship ‘‘Heartbeat’’
    • British Virgin Islands
    • High Court (British Virgin Islands)
    • 28 December 2004
    ...to the Claimant in accordance with Part 65 Appendix B of C.P.R. 2000. Suzie d'Auvergne High Court Judge 1 [1979] 1 AER 883 ,889 F—J 2 [1939] AC 256, 266 3 17 th Edition 15–45 ...
  • Madzimbamuto v Lardner-Burke
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • 23 July 1968
    ...Kingdom ‘speaking with two voices in the matter’ in the sense in which that expression is used by Lord Atkin in the Arantzazu MendiELR (1939) A.C. 256 at page 264.[1] See also, the case of the Tinoco Arbitration,[2] Briggs, The Law of Nations, 2nd edn., p. 197 at page 202. As I shall show, ......
  • Re Al-Fin Corporation's Patent
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 2 April 1969
    ...260; [1959] 3 W.L.R. 346; [1959] 3 All E.R. 1, H.L.(E.). The following additional cases were cited in argument: Arantzazu Mendi, The [1939] A.C. 256, H.L.(E.). Courtaulds Ltd.'s Application, In re [1956] R.P.C. 208. Grand Junction Waterworks Co. v. Hampton Urban District Council[1898] 2 Ch.......
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  • National litigation and international law: repercussions for Australia's protection of marine resources.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 33 No. 1, April 2009
    • 1 April 2009
    ...(6) 'Our State cannot speak with two voices on such a matter, the judiciary saying one thing, the executive another': The Arantzazu Mendi [1939] AC 256, 264 (Lord Atkin). See also Thomas v Mowbray (2007) 233 CLR 307, 354-5 (Gummow and Crennan (7) These doctrines are variously described as '......
  • CONTRACTUAL ILLEGALITY AND CONFLICT OF LAWS
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1995, December 1995
    • 1 December 1995
    ...and considerations of the inter-relationship of the judicial and executive arms of government may be paramount. See The Arantzazu Mendi[1939] A.C. 256 at 264 and GUR Corporation v. Trust Bank of Africa Ltd.[1987] Q.B. 599 at 625. It is also clear from The Mary [1992] 2 Lloyd’s Rep. at 480 t......
  • The "common-law regime" of foreign sovereign immunity: the actual possession rule in admiralty.
    • United States
    • Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law Vol. 44 No. 4, October 2011
    • 1 October 2011
    ...to actual possession by a foreign government). (105.) See id. at 37 n.2 (canvassing British authorities, including The Arantzazu Mendi, [1939] A.C. 256 (H.L.), 263 (Eng.) and Compania Naviera Vascongado v. S.S. Cristina, [1938] A.C. 485 (H.L.) (106.) Id. at 38 (citing Sullivan v. State of S......
  • The Role of the Judiciary in Foreign Affairs To Be Duly Recognised, with Special Reference to the Supreme Court of the USA
    • South Africa
    • Juta Stellenbosch Law Review No. , September 2021
    • 29 September 2021
    ...L Collin s “Foreign Relations and the Jud iciary” (20 02) 51 ICLQ 485 485 At 487, Collins quo tes Lord Atkin in Th e Aranzazu Mendi (1939) AC 256 264 who famously a rticulated t his principle: “Our state can not speak with two voices on such a matt er, the judiciary sayin g one thing, the e......
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