POL340Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Supreme Federal Court, De Jure, Chorzów
2 Oct 2017
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States have generally oriented themselves towards restrictive doctrine: un convention on jurisdictional immunities of states and their property (2004): comprehensive code for (restrictive) state immunity. U. s. territory under an implied promise that while there, it would be exempt from the otherwise exclusive national jurisdiction of the country. Trendtex v central bank of nigeria (cbn) case [1977; qb (cid:894)queen"s bench(cid:895), uk] In 1975, the cbn issued a letter of credit for trendtex, a swiss company for the price of cement to be sold by trendtex to an english company which had contracted with the nigerian ministry of defence. Trendtex bought the cement, supplied it to the company, and shipped some to. Nigeria: because of congestion at nigerian ports, trendtex failed to unload the cargo on time. In addition, the nigerian government introduced import controls on cement and instructed the. Cbn not to pay for cement cargo not authorized under them: trendtex claimed payments and damages in a british court.
