The Weekly Law Reports
[2007] 2 WLR 876
Court of Appeal
Svenska Petroleum Exploration AB v Government of the Republic of Lithuania and another (No 2)
[2006] EWCA Civ 1529
2006 July 24,
25,
26;
Nov 13
Nov 13
Sir Anthony Clarke MR, Scott Baker and Moore-Bick LJJ
International law
— State immunity
— Arbitration award
— Joint venture agreement between Lithuanian enterprise and Swedish oil company
— Lithuanian Government legally and contractually bound by agreement
— Company referring dispute to ICC arbitration in Denmark pursuant to arbitration clause in agreement
— Tribunal accepting jurisdiction and making award in favour of company
— Whether award enforceable against government in English courts
— Whether government immune from suit
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State Immunity Act 1978 (c 33), s. 9(1)
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Arbitration Act 1996 (c 23), s. 101(2)