The Law Reports (Appeal Cases)
[1955] AC 72
[JUDICIAL COMMITTEE]
JUAN YSMAEL & COMPANY INCORPORATED APPELLANTS; AND GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA RESPONDENTS.
[AND CONNECTED APPEAL.] ON APPEAL FROM THE APPEAL COURT OF HONG KONG.
1954 Oct. 7.
EARL JOWITT, LORD PORTER, LORD OAKSEY, SIR JOHN BEAUMONT, and MR. L. M. D. DE SILVA.
Conflict of Laws
— Sovereign immunity
— Foreign State not a party to proceedings
— Alleged interest in property in suit
— Necessity for proof that claim not illusory or founded on defective title
— Action to be stayed at point when it is established that conflicting rights have to be decided
— Action in rem for possession of ship
— Claim by Indonesian government to own it.
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