International Organizations Before United Kingdom Courts

Sarooshi, Dan; Tzanakopoulos, Antonios

International Organizations Before United Kingdom Courts

THE PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS IN DOMESTIC COURTS, pp. 275-302, August Reinisch, ed., Oxford University Press, 2013

Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 70/2012

32 Pages Posted: 15 Nov 2012 Last revised: 18 Jul 2013

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Antonios Tzanakopoulos

University of Oxford

Date Written: November 14, 2012

Abstract

This paper surveys and analyses the case law of United Kingdom courts on questions of personality and immunity of international organizations, as well as on the question of liability of members for the acts of the organization, focusing in particular on the various cases surrounding the collapse of the International Tin Council in the 1980s.

Keywords: international organizations, personality, immunity, privileges, non-justiciability, agency, liability

Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation

Sarooshi, Dan and Tzanakopoulos, Antonios, International Organizations Before United Kingdom Courts (November 14, 2012). THE PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS IN DOMESTIC COURTS, pp. 275-302, August Reinisch, ed., Oxford University Press, 2013, Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 70/2012, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2175817