CASES/JUDGMENTS ON INTERNATIONAL LAW IN NIGERIA (2)
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| TITLE | MAIN ISSUES |
| GLENCORE INTERNATIONAL AG AND ANR V. PORTMAN AND ORS | |
| GROSVENOR CASINOS LTD V. GHASSAN HALAOUI | INTERNATIONAL LAW – ENFORCEMENT OF FOREIGN JUDGMENT:- Judgment debtor – Order made by foreign court against party in Nigeria which did not submit to its jurisdiction – Whether can be registered and enforced in Nigeria – Relevant considerations |
| INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS (ICRC) v. ISMAILA TIJANI OLABODE | INTERNATIONAL LAW – IMMUNITY:- United Nations connected bodies – International Committee of the Red Cross – Legal personality under the laws of Nigeria – Whether can sue and be sued – Whether enjoys immunity from legal action in Nigeria |
| JONES V. OCEANIC STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LIMITED | INTERNATIONAL LAW: – Conflict of Laws – Lex loci contractus – Contract of Carriage by Sea – Clause void by Law of the Country of Contract – Clause valid by English Law – Intention of Parties. |
| KABO AIR LIMITED V. THE O’ CORPORATION LIMITED | INTERNATIONAL LAW – ENFORCEMENT OF FOREIGN JUDGMENT IN NIGERIA:- Proper procedure for registering and enforcing a foreign judgment in Nigeria INTERNATIONAL LAW:– Court with jurisdiction to register a foreign judgment relating to aviation in Nigeria – How treated |
| MOJEKWU V. IWUCHUKWU | JURISPRUDENCE AND INTERNATIONAL LAW: – Application of international conventions and declarations in Nigeria – Beijing Conference Declarations on Discrimination Against Women – Invocation in every case connected with women – Whether possible for a case connected with women to have nothing to do with the discrimination against women – Need to situate cases within the peculiar contexts and issues disclosed by its facts |
| MONTEROSSO SHIPPING CO LTD V. INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORT WORKERS’ FEDERATION | INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW- CONFLICT OF LAWS: Conflict of laws – Contract – Agreement made in Spain – Connected agreements made in different jurisdictions – Where one of the agreement is conclusively presumed by applicable law not to be intended to be legally enforceable – Whether proper law is the other one – Whether unenforceability raises adverse presumption of being applicable law |
| NV SLAVENBURG’S BANK V. INTERCONTINENTAL NATURAL RESOURCES LTD AND OTHERS | INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW:- Foreign Company incorporated in Bermuda which had an established place of business in England – Credit facilities obtained from Dutch bank but secured with charges over its assets to the benefit of the bank – Compulsory winding up proceedings taken out in Bermuda against company – Implication for interests of bank over company’s assets in England |
| OBAYUWANA V. GOVERNOR OF BENDEL STATE & ANOR. | |
| SANTOS M. BATALHA V. WEST CONSTRUCTION COMPANY LIMITED | INTERNATIONAL LAW – ALIEN EMPLOYMENT:- Conditions for working in Nigeria as a foreigner under the Immigration Act – Duties of Employers and Foreign employee – Contract of employment of a foreigner who had not satisfied prerequisite conditions – Whether ex facie illegal – Whether enforceable where no criminal charge had been brought against such foreigner |
| SOUTH TRUST BANK & ORS V. PHERANZY GAS LIMITED & ORS | INTERNATIONAL LAW – INTERNATIONAL TRANSACTIONS:- Project financing agreement between a Nigerian company and foreign banks and guarantors – Where agreement conferred non-exclusive jurisdiction on courts of foreign banks/guarantors and Nigerian company agreed to submit to the competent court of its corporate domicile – Effect |
| THE REG. TRUST. OF NACHPON & ORS. V. MEDICAL & HEALTH WORKERS UNION OF NIGERIA & ORS | INTERNATIONAL LAW – APPLICATION OF INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION:- Condition precedent to application of International Conventions in Nigeria |
| UKEJE V MRS LOIS CHITURU UKEJE | PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW AND JURISPRUDENCE:- Conflict between the Personal law of deceased person who died intestate and the lex situs governing immovable properties in his estate – Application of the lex situs principle – Effect on succession rights – Relevant considerations |
| UMENYIORA V. OBIMBA | INTERNATIONAL LAW – INTERNATIONAL AFFILIATIONS:- Affiliation arrangement between a body registered in Nigeria and a parent organization abroad – Relevance of the terms of the Power of Attorney – Whether can change the essence and nature of a registered body in Nigeria – Implication for ownership of properties of registered trustees – Locus standi of international parent body to sue or defend suits relating to the Nigerian affiliate |
| X V. SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT | INTERNATIONAL LAW:- Expulsion – Removal from territory on ground of ental illness – Human Rights – Whether Secretary of State entitled to remove mentally ill patient detained in hospital by using powers under Immigration Act 1971 instead of powers under Mental Health Act 1983 – Whether policy of using Immigration Act 1971 fettered Secretary of State’s discretion – Whether removal would violate Art 3 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms 1950 |
| ZAIDAN V. MOHSSEN | INTERNATIONAL LAW – PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW:- Conflict of laws – Applicable law governing a Nigerian based immovable property of a deceased Moslem citizen of Syria – Personal law of a foreigner – Applicability in Nigeria |
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