Sentences with phrase «on international comity»
On September 20, 2016, the Second Circuit reversed a $ 147 million antitrust judgment against two Chinese companies on international comity grounds in the long - running In re Vitamin C Antitrust Litigation in the Eastern District...
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The Nigerian ambassador pledged that the missions» would continue to bring their expertise to bear on the international stage so as to lift the flag of Nigeria high among the comity of nations.
Landsbanki's counsel submitted that the court should stay Jefferies» debt claim on the grounds of international comity: the purpose of the moratorium was to benefit the entire class of Landsbanki creditors by protecting it from claims during the reorganisation process.
There is an established line of Strasbourg jurisprudence which holds that restrictions on the access to court of embassy staff engage Article 6, but can be justified with reference to «the legitimate aim of complying with international law to promote comity and good relations between States» (Sabah El Seil v France (2012) 54 EHRR 14, at [52]-RRB-.
The case has drawn interest from more than a dozen interveners, including the Attorneys General of Ontario and Canada, as well as a number of civil rights and media organizations, who have weighed in on how such an order would affect free speech rights, international comity, and access to justice.
The Justice referred to City of Mecca (1879), 5 P D 28 where Sir Robert Phillimore held that the English Court of Admiralty could and ought to enforce an in rem judgment of a Foreign Admiralty Court, on the grounds of international comity (reversed on appeal not on a point of law, but because, like the subject case, the foreign judgment was in personam only.)
Lord Mance (with Lords Neuberger, Clarke, Wilson and Lady Hale) held that the principle of state immunity (as provided for in both customary international law and the State Immunity Act 1978) was based on the sovereign equality of states and international comity.
78 For these reasons, I have no difficulty in holding on the facts agreed upon for the purpose of this appeal, that the counts of fraud with which the appellant is charged may properly be prosecuted in Canada, and I see nothing in the requirements of international comity that would dictate that this country refrain from exercising its jurisdiction.