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