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From 1867 to 1949, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council was the highest court of appeal for Canada. Its decisions on appeals from Canadian courts had binding legal precedent on all Canadian courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada .
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.
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.
The Privy Council, formally His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, is a formal body of advisers to the sovereign of the United Kingdom. Its members, known as privy counsellors , are mainly senior politicians who are current or former members of either the House of Commons or the House of Lords .
Proposals to abolish appeals to the Privy Council in New Zealand were first put forward in the early 1980s. [82] The Privy Council's respect for local decisions was noted by Lord Brightman in 1985 in regard to the possible adoption of a New Zealand decision, in the case of Archer v. Cutler (1980), as a precedent, where he stated that:
The Privy Council also affirmed that the Duomatic principle generally applied to the giving of consent under section 80. [ 20 ] Finally, Lord Burrows rejected the view expressed by the courts below in relation to section 80 that, if a company was a single-purpose vehicle, then the sale of its only asset was necessarily "in the usual or regular ...
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 ...
The General Legal Council and another v The Jamaican Bar Association (Jamaica) [2023] UKPC 6: HEB Enterprises Ltd and another v Bernice Richards (as Personal Representative of the Estate of Anthony Richards, Deceased) (Cayman Islands) [2023] UKPC 7: Justin Ramoon v Governor of the Cayman Islands and another (Cayman Islands) [2023] UKPC 9