Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Against a Foreign Sovereign

Carmon, Haggai

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Haggai Carmon^2,3

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The immunity of a foreign sovereign from certain legal proceedings is one of the results of the recognition of the special status of a foreign sovereign state:

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1.
Michael Akehurst, A Modern Introduction to International Law (6^th ed., 1987).
2.
C.A. 7092/94 Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada v. Adelson, tak-IsrSC 97(2) 292 (1997).
3.
Sefer Hukim 5769, pg. 76 (Nov. 16, 2008).
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Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976, Pub. L. 94-583. 90 Stat. 2891 (October 21, 1976).
5.
Saudi Arabia v. Nelson, 507 U.S. 349 (1993).
6.
Australia Foreign States Immunity Act 1985, reprinted in 25 ILM 715 (1986).
7.
Attorney-General’s Department, “Operation of the Foreign States Immunity Act 1985”’ Information Paper, Office of International Law, 4 December 2007, (Last visited on Oct 28, 2010), http://www.ag.gov.au/www/agd/rwpattach.nsf/VAP/(3A6790B96C927794AF1031D9395C5C20)~ Information+paper+operation+of+the+FSI+Act+Aug+2009.pdf/$file/Information+paper+operation+of+the+FSI+Act+Aug+2009.pdf.
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Id. at §9-10.
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State Immunity Act, 1978.
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AIG Capitol Partners Inc. v. Republic of Kazakhstan [2006] 1 All E.R. 284 (Q.B.).
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D.C.A. (T.A.) 1190/04 Permanent Mission of Democratic Republic of Congo v. 767 Third Avenue Assn., P.M. 2004 (2) 599 (2006) [The respondent in this case was represented by the author.]
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For dissenting opinions, see Chap. 6 at n. 131, 135.
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[2010] E.W.C.A. Civ. 41; [2010] W.L.R. (D.) 28.
14.
Id. at 1345.
15.
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, opened for signature June 10, 1958, 21 U.S.T. 2517, 330 U.N.T.S. 38.
16.
Article 39 of the Arbitration Law, 5728-1968, SeferHukim5728, pg. 535.
17.
Convention on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters in 1968 (the Brussels Convention). For a detailed analysis, see Cheshire & North, Private International Law, 278-340 (12^th ed. 1992).
18.
The Lugano Convention was signed in 1968 with the goal of judicial cooperation in Western Europe, and was addressed to the EFTA countries (Austria, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland). For a detailed analysis, see: Cheshire & North, supra n. 17 at 340.

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Carmon, H. (2013). Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Against a Foreign Sovereign. In: Foreign Judgments in Israel. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32003-3_9

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