Sentences with phrase «immunity laws prevent»
And American sovereign immunity laws prevent them from suing the federal government without its consent.
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That's because jurisdiction just controls what that country's courts do — American jurisdiction means that American courts are willing to try the person and American law enforcement can arrest them if they set foot in America, and the only time the US doesn't get to establish jurisdiction is if US law prevents it (e.g. the Constitution) or if an international treaty forbids it (e.g. diplomatic immunity).
However this power «enjoys any form of immunity from the rules of the EC Treaty on freedom of establishment, can not, in particular, justify the Member State of incorporation, by requiring the winding - up or liquidation of the company, in preventing that company from converting itself into a company governed by the law of the other Member State, to the extent that it is permitted under that law to do so».
Until now, a 1976 law has prevented this, as it gave foreign nations immunity to lawsuits from US courts.
We are delighted that the Supreme Court has recognised that the UK's State Immunity Act is too generous to foreign states, preventing employees, including many vulnerable workers, accessing justice and going well beyond the requirements of international law.
(1) With the intent to deprive any person or class of persons of the equal protection of the laws or of equal privileges and immunities under the laws or for the purpose of preventing the constituted authorities of this state or any subdivision thereof from, or hindering them in, giving or securing to all persons within this state the equal protection of the laws;
He relied on the application to a state by s 20 of the State Immunity Act 1978 (SIA 1978) of Art 29 of the Vienna Convention, which was given force of law by the Diplomatic Privileges Act 1964 and which, it was said, required the UK, including its courts, to «treat him with due respect and... take all appropriate steps to prevent any attack on his... dignity».