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United Kingdom
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Type of document
Jurisprudence
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http://www.cahdidatabases.coe.int/C/Immunities/United Kingdom/1991/270
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Database of the CAHDI "The immunities of States and international organisations" - contribution of United Kingdom - Jurisprudence of 09/07/1991

Re Rafidain Bank

Author(ity)

High Court, Chancery Division

Date of the decision, of the judgment

09/07/1991

Points of law

In the context of the liquidation of a commercial company owned by a foreign State, monies owed by the company to that foreign State are not protected by State immunity and cannot therefore be paid out by the liquidators in preference to other creditors (section 6(3) State Immunity Act).

Summary of the case

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Sources

101 ILR 332

Additional information (explanations, notes, etc.)

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