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23 Nov 2022, 5:55 am by Karuna Nundy
They have since resulted in the 2005 Plan of Action for Africa, a blueprint for the promotion and implementation of the Latimer House Principles adopted by leaders of 18 Commonwealth countries in Africa, and the Edinburgh Plan of Action on the Development and Implementation of the Commonwealth (Latimer House) Principles, adopted by the Commonwealth Law Officers and partner organizations of the Commonwealth Secretariat to implement the Latimer… [read post]
20 Jul 2015, 1:00 am by Guy Stuckey-Clarke, Olswang LLP
In November 2000, the High Court (Laws LJ and Gibbs J) gave judgment in favour of Mr Bancoult, a Chagos Islander, in granting a High Court order quashing the Immigration Ordinance 1971, s 4; see R (Bancoult) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs [2001] QB 1067 (“Bancoult (1)”). [read post]
20 Dec 2017, 9:17 am by EMMY GIBBS, ATLEU
Introduction Judgment of the Supreme Court is handed down today in the case of Janah v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (“SSFCA”) and Libya, and Benkharbouche v SSFCA. [read post]
14 Jan 2021, 9:36 am
An analysis of the approach taken by courts in the Republic of South Africa Richard Frimpong Oppong, The dawn of the free and fair movement of foreign judgments in Africa? [read post]
10 Mar 2021, 3:26 am by Chukwuma Okoli
All suits and actions arising under this Agreement shall be brought in the Commonwealth of Virginia, USA and License hereby submits to the jurisdiction of the Courts of the Commonwealth of Virginia and the United States District Courts Sitting in Virginia. [read post]
6 Jun 2023, 8:00 am by ernst
The Enduring Influence of the 'Proper Law' Rule in Bonython v Commonwealth of AustraliaIan McDonald5. [read post]
14 Dec 2019, 11:21 pm by Maria Hook
In Christie v Foster [2019] NZCA 623, the Court overturned the High Court’s decision that the Moçambique rule (named after British South Africa Co v Companhia de Moçambique [1893] AC 602) required that a dispute over New Zealand land be heard in New Zealand (for a case note on the High Court’s decision, see here). [read post]
17 Dec 2017, 4:59 am
We later adopted this definition in Africa v. [read post]
18 Nov 2020, 2:46 pm by Chukwuma Okoli
At the Commonwealth level, Nigeria did not pay any significant role in the making of the 2017 Commonwealth Model Law on Judgments and has no intention of domesticating it. [read post]
6 Apr 2021, 1:14 pm by Unknown
Intra-African judicial appointments like the one that brought Udoma to Uganda are less common today than in the past, but there is still a circuit that brings judges from West Africa to other places in the Commonwealth. [read post]
9 Feb 2020, 3:31 am by Thalia Kruger
This was the question which the High Court of Justice (Family Division) had to answer in MM v NA: [2020] EWHC 93 (Fam). [read post]
29 Sep 2014, 9:44 am
Contents include:DoctrinePaul Lagarde, The Movement of Civil-Status Records in Europe, and the European Commission’s Proposal of 24 April 2013 Christian Kohler, Towards the Recognition of Civil Status in the European UnionWorking Group of the Federal Association of German Civil Status Registrars, One Name Throughout Europe – Draft for a European Regulation on the Law Applicable to Names Patrick Kinsch, Harroudj v. [read post]
17 May 2020, 2:57 am by Anastasiia Kyrylenko
Kat Friend Matt Swinn shed light on a complex case between the Commonwealth of Australia and the pharmaceutical manufacturer Sanofi. [read post]
23 Aug 2011, 4:07 pm by James McComish
It is also an example of the less deferential attitude taken by the Australian courts towards the executive government’s conduct of foreign relations in recent times (Habib v Commonwealth (2010) 183 FCR 62 being the most notable example). [read post]
2 Jan 2020, 3:11 am by Thalia Kruger
This two-track system is common in Africa and many parts of the Commonwealth including the United Kingdom which has more than one statute (and the common law) on foreign judgments. [read post]
17 Nov 2014, 11:38 am by Antonio Zuccaro
The relevance of Thomas Hobbes to the novel is obvious—the ‘constitutional crisis’ faced by the Boys is an allegorical re-enactment of Hobbes’ famous division between the Commonwealth-by-Institution (represented by Ralph and Piggy) and the Commonwealth-by-Acquisition (represented by Jack and Roger). [read post]
12 Jan 2021, 11:01 am by Chukwuma Okoli
This article seeks to understand the principle of mutual trust in its EU context and then compare it with the subtle application of mutual trust in the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments in Commonwealth Africa. [read post]
16 Sep 2010, 3:13 am by Sean Patrick Donlan
Then follow chapters throwing new light on Commonwealth Caribbean, United States Novojo law, Turkey, South Africa, Sri Lanka, England and Ireland, the European Union, and Public International Law and International Trade Law; all showing that we are entering an era of legal studies involving looking at all legal systems anew. [read post]