The High Commissioner for Pakistan in the United Kingdom v Prince Mukarram Jah, His Exalted Highness the 8th Nizam of Hyderabad

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
JudgeMr Justice Marcus Smith
Judgment Date02 October 2019
Neutral Citation[2019] EWHC 2551 (Ch)
CourtChancery Division
Docket NumberClaim No.: HC-2013-000211
Date02 October 2019
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5 cases
  • Asturion Foundation v Aljawarah Bint Ibrahim Abdulaziz Alibrahim
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 21 December 2023
    ...entered into, but they are clear, on the authority of High Commissioner for Pakistan in the United Kingdom v. Prince Muffakham Jah [2019] EWHC 2551 (Ch), [2020] 2 WLR 699 at [247], that it has no operation where the issue is whether a gift has been validly made. They say: “ The doctrine c......
  • Ukraine (Represented by the Minister of Finance of Ukraine acting upon the instructions of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine) v The Law Debenture Trust Corporation P.L.C.
    • United Kingdom
    • Supreme Court
    • 15 March 2023
    ...Ukraine also relies on the recent decision of Marcus Smith J in High Comr for Pakistan in the United Kingdom v Prince Muffakham Jah [2019] EWHC 2551 (Ch); [2020] Ch 421, where the judge addressed the question which law governed the actual authority of the Nizam of Hyderabad in 1948. The j......
  • Joanna Lemos v Church Bay Trust Company Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 27 September 2023
    ...the “three certainties” were satisfied (see Lewin on Trusts 20 th edn para 5-003; High Commissioner for Pakistan v Prince Muffakham Jah [2020] Ch 421 at [244]): Christos, as settlor, had a sufficiently certain intention to create a trust; the subject-matter of the trust, namely the interes......
  • Jonathan Paul Thielmann v Galina Besharova
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 22 November 2022
    ...– a point illustrated by the decision of Marcus Smith J in High Commissioner for Pakistan in the UK v Prince Muffakham Jah and Others [2020] Ch 421, which I consider below at paragraph 43 Fourth, determining whether proceedings are an abuse of process is not an exercise of discretion; it i......
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