The Unitas

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date08 May 1950
Docket NumberCase No. 120
Date08 May 1950
CourtPrivy Council
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4 cases
  • Kamil Najim Abdullah Alseran and Another v MRE and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • December 14, 2017
    ...flag of an enemy state has traditionally been treated as conclusive of the vessel's nationality and hence of its enemy character (see also The Unitas [1950] AC 536, 550). The Manual adopts this approach but also recognises, realistically, that in the modern era when merchant ships frequentl......
  • Tofilau v The Queen
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • August 30, 2007
    ...11 Ad & E 983 at 990 [ 113 ER 688 at 690]; The Unitas [1948] P 205; aff'd sub nom Lever Bros and Unilever NV v HM Procurator General [1950] AC 536 (on other grounds). 406 For example, Maskell v Horner [1915] 3 KB 106. 407 At [326]–[327]. 408 (1963) 109 CLR 559 at 562. 409 Sinclair v The Ki......
  • Kuenigl v Donnersmarck
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • December 3, 1954
  • The Inginer N. Vlassopol
    • United Kingdom
    • Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division
    • June 28, 1951
    ...I am not unmindful of the great importance which, speaking generally, is attached to the flying of the enemy flag (see the UnitasELR, [1950] A.C. 536; 1 Ll. P. C. (2nd) 277). But their Lordships in that case recognized that there may be exceptions to its conclusiveness, although they though......

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