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Pursuant to Article 158 of the Basic Law, the power of final interpretation of the Basic Law is vested not in the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong but in the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of China, which, unlike the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, is a political body rather than an independent and impartial ...
Cukurova Finance International Ltd & Anor v Alfa Telecom Turkey Ltd [2009] UKPC 19 (5 May 2009), P.C. (on appeal from British Virgin Islands), [2012] UKPC 20 (23 May 2012), [2013] UKPC 2 (30 January 2013), [2013] UKPC 20 (9 July 2013), [2013] UKPC 25 (29 July 2013) and [2014] UKPC 15 (13 May 2014) were a series of judicial decisions of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, one of which ...
Vita Food Products Inc v Unus Shipping Co Ltd [1939] UKPC 7, [1] is a leading decision of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on the conflict of laws.The case stands for the proposition that an express choice of law clause in a contract should be honoured as long as the agreement was bona fide and not against public policy.
The doctrine of privity of contract is a common law principle which provides that a contract cannot confer rights or impose obligations upon anyone who is not a party to that contract. [1]
In contract law, a forum selection clause (sometimes called a dispute resolution clause, choice of court clause, governing law clause, jurisdiction clause or an arbitration clause, depending on its form) in a contract with a conflict of laws element allows the parties to agree that any disputes relating to that contract will be resolved in a specific forum.
An arbitral tribunal or arbitration tribunal, also arbitration commission, arbitration committee or arbitration council is a panel of adjudicators which is convened and sits to resolve a dispute by way of arbitration. The tribunal may consist of a sole arbitrator, or there may be two or more arbitrators, which might include a chairperson or an ...
The Re Polemis decision was disapproved of, and its test replaced, in the later decision of the Privy Council in the Wagon Mound (No. 1) [1961]. [2] Re Polemis has yet to be overruled by an English court and is still technically "good law". However, it was disapproved by the Privy Council, whose decisions are not binding but are strongly ...
A privy council is a body that advises a head of state, typically, but not always, in the context of a monarchical government. The term "privy" (from French privé ) signifies private or secret. Consequently, a privy council, more common in the past, existed as a group of a ruling monarch's most trusted court advisors.