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Spiliada Maritime Corp v Cansulex Ltd (The Spiliada) (1987)
- Abstract:
- There is no doubt that Spiliada Maritime Corporation v Cansulex Ltd is a landmark case in the conflict of laws. It is perhaps most accurate to describe it as the last of a series of landmark cases which significantly changed English law in so far as it relates to the circumstances in which the English courts will decline to exercise their jurisdiction when there is another available forum. This essay examines the development of the principles still applied today, with particular focus on Spiliada itself, before a brief assessment of whether, in practice, it has turned out to be, as some have said, a ‘treasure-house’. In assessing the state of the law prior to the decision of the House of Lords in The Atlantic Star, Lord Wilberforce opined...
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- Published
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.5040/9781509952670.ch-011
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- Publisher:
- Hart Publishing
- Host title:
- Landmark Cases in Private International Law
- Pages:
- 253-272
- Chapter number:
- 11
- Series:
- Landmark Cases
- Place of publication:
- London
- Publication date:
- 2023-04-24
- Edition:
- 1st
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- 9781509952670
- ISBN:
- 9781509952649
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English
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Chapter
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1323230
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- Edwin Peel
- Copyright date:
- 2023
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