The Parlement Belge

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date15 March 1879
Date15 March 1879
CourtProbate, Divorce and Admiralty Division
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30 cases
  • Littrell v United States of America (No. 2)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • November 12, 1993
    ...cases, SOFA created no additional immunities which did not already exist. He also tentatively submitted in reliance on dicta in the Parlement Belge 1879 LR 4 PP 129 @ 149 and Chow Hung Ching -v—The King 1949 77 CLR 449 per Dixon J @ 482 that, as SOFA was part of the basis on which the Unite......
  • Adams v Adams
    • United Kingdom
    • Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division
    • July 31, 1970
    ...[1924] A.C. 797, 802); and he certainly has in such circumstances a locus standi at the invitation of the court (The Parlement BelgeELR (1879) 4 P.D. 129. 130, 145, in which the Attorney-General appealed the instant decision, as reported at (1880) 5 P.D. 197) or with the leave of the court ......
  • Benkharbouche v Embassy of the Republic of Sudan (Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Others intervening)
    • United Kingdom
    • Supreme Court
    • October 18, 2017
    ...person, for the first time, all the attributes of his character." Six years later, Sir Robert had to deal with the same issue in The Parlement Belge (1879) 4 PD 129, another collision action brought against a ship belonging to the Belgian state, which was employed as a mail packet but also ......
  • R (Miller and Another) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union; Re McCord's application
    • United Kingdom
    • Supreme Court
    • January 24, 2017
    ...and Higgs v Minister of National Security [2000] 2 AC 228, 241–242, per Lord Hoffmann. [Reference was made to The Parlement Belge (1879) 4 PD 129, 154.]The Government wrongly contends that the exercise of the prerogative can alter domestic law. None of the examples it gives assists it in th......
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  • Table of Cases
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Public International Law. Second Edition
    • June 16, 2008
    ...227, 228 The Parlement Belge (1880), L.R. 5 P.D. 197 (Eng. C.A.) ........................... 372, 392 The Parlement Belge, [1878–89] 4 P.D. 129 ....................................................... 225 The Queen City v. The King, [1931] S.C.R. 387, [1931] 3 D.L.R. 147 ................. 29......
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    • Canada
    • Irwin Books International Human Rights Law Preliminary Sections
    • June 18, 2004
    ...159 Tel-Oren v. Libyan Arab Republic, 726 F.2d (D.C. Cir. 1984) .......................... 502 The Parlement Belge, [1878–9] 4 PD 129.......................................................... 164 Thomas v. Baptiste, [1999] 3 WLR 249 (P.C.) .................................................. ......
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    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Using International Law in Canadian Courts. Second Edition
    • June 16, 2008
    ...161 he Christina [1938] AC 485 (HL) ............................................................... 65–66 he Parlement Belge [1878–9] 4 PD 129 ..................................................... 231–32 he Philippine Admiral [1977] AC 373 (PC) ............................................. ......
  • Juridical and Constitutional Implications of CARICOM Treaty Practice
    • Jamaica
    • CARICOM: Policy options for international engagement Part 4
    • July 18, 2010
    ...International Law and the Constitution, ICLQ Vol. 43, (1994) page 563. 74. See f.n. 57 supra; f.ns. 70 & 72 infra. 75. Parlement Belge (1878) 4 P.D. 129, 154-5, AG for Canada v AG for Ontario [1937] AC 326, 347-8, Blackburn v AG [1971] 1WLR 1037, 1039 (per Lord Denning MR). 76. I. A. Sheare......
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