State immunity can only be lost by a submission to the jurisdiction when it was invoked, and not by an earlier act.
Citations:
[1951] 2 KB 1003, [1951] 2 TLR 697
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – NML Capital Ltd v Argentina SC 6-Jul-2011
The respondent had issued bonds but in 2001 had declared a moratorium on paying them. The appellant hedge fund later bought the bonds, heavily discounted. Judgment was obtained in New York, which the appellants now sought to enforce against assets . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
International
Updated: 09 December 2022; Ref: scu.441561