The Porto Alexandre
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Court | Court of Appeal |
| Judgment Date | 10 November 1919 |
| Docket Number | Case No. 100 |
| Date | 10 November 1919 |
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37 cases
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Owners of the Philippine Admiral v Wallem Shipping (Hong Kong) Ltd (The Philippine Admiral)
...before the Beard fell under three heads. First and foremost whether the Board should follow the decision in The Porto AlexandreELR[3] [1920] P. 30. Secondly whether, if the Board should decide not to follow that decision, the Philippine Admiral ought nevertheless to enjoy immunity because i......
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Playa Larga (Owners of cargo lately laden on board) v I Congreso del Partido (Owners); Marble Islands (Owners of cargo lately laden on board) v I Congreso del Partido (Owners); I Congreso del Partido
...and the coarse which they have taken, then consider the status of the decision of the Court of Appeal in The Porto AlexandreELR[4] [1920] P. 30, and make my findings with regard to the ownership, possession and control of the Congreso. I shall then consider the motions of the Republic of Cu......
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Democratic Republic of Congo v FG Hemisphere Associates (No 1) [Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, Court of Final Appeal]
...case was held not to be covered by state immunity even though she was government-owned. As one sees at p. 403B, The Porto AlexandreELR [1920] P 30 was not followed.65. Two years later the English Court of Appeal decided the case of Trendtex Trading Corporation v. Central Bank of NigeriaELR[......
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Daraydan Holdings Ltd and Others v Solland International Ltd and Others
...state trading ships) in preference to The Porto Alexandre [1920] P 30 had he not already been relieved from the binding authority of The Porto Alexandre by the then recent decision of the Court of Appeal in Trendtex Trading Corp v Central Bank of Nigeria [1977] QB 529, on the commercial exc......
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2 books & journal articles
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Foreign sovereign immunity in the caribbean: a case for legislative intervention
...S-18 (Can.). See, e.g ., The Parlement Belge [1879] 4 PD 129; The Porto Alexandre [1920] N. No. 1315 at 30, http://www.uniset.ca/other/cs2/1920P30.html; Berizzi Bros. v. The Pesaro, 271 U.S. 562 (1926). 2021] 59 GEORGETOWN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW Certain Rules relating to the Immunity ......
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The Commercial Exceptions to Foreign State Immunity
...Law 220, 247. 14 Compania Naviera Vascongado v SS Cristina (The Cristina) [1938] AC 485, 490 (Lord Atkin); The Porto Alexandre [1920] P 30; The Parlement Belge (1880) 5 PD 97; cf Lauterpacht, above n 13. 15 See, eg, Charter of the United Nations art 2(1); Australian Law Reform Commission, F......
