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

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtChancery Division
JudgeMr Justice Marcus Smith
Judgment Date02 October 2019
Neutral Citation[2019] EWHC 2551 (Ch)
Docket NumberClaim No.: HC-2013-000211
Date02 October 2019

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14 cases
  • Terna Energy Trading Doo v Revolut Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • King's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • June 12, 2024
    ...relied in particular on the decision of Marcus Smith J in High Commissioner for Pakistan in the United Kingdom v Prince Muffakham Jah [2020] Ch 421, which referred to earlier authorities of long standing, dating back to the eighteenth century. That was a case where a claim was brought again......
  • Fabrizio D'Aloia v Persons Unknown Category A
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • September 12, 2024
    ...91 two unjust factors were advanced: i) The payment was unauthorised, relying on High Commissioner for Pakistan v Prince Muffakham Jah [2019] EWHC 2551 (Ch) at [271]. ii) It is unjust for the recipient to retain money where the payer would not have paid had they known the true position, rel......
  • 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
    • March 15, 2023
    ...31 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 ......
  • Asturion Foundation v Aljawarah Bint Ibrahim Abdulaziz Alibrahim
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • December 21, 2023
    ...been 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 doctri......
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1 books & journal articles
  • Indian Princely States and the 19th-century Transformation of the Law of Nations
    • United Kingdom
    • Oxford University Press Books and Journals Journal of International Dispute Settlement No. 11-3, 2020
    • September 23, 2020
    ...in Ancient India (Harvard University Press 2017) 13.2.The High Commissioner for Pakistan in the United Kingdom v Prince Mukarram Jah [2019] EWHC 2551 (Ch). Gurumukh Nihal Singh, Indian States and British India: Their Future Relations (Nandkishore & Bros 1930) vii, viii. M Ramaswamy, ‘The In......