Sáorstát and Continental Steamship Company v De las Morenas
| Jurisdiction | Ireland |
| Court | Supreme Court |
| Judgment Date | 18 December 1945 |
| Docket Number | Case No. 25 |
| Date | 18 December 1945 |
(H.C., S.C.),
Sáorstát and Continental Steamship Company
and
De las Morenas
Breach of contract - Civil process against agent - Whether agent personally liable - Whether Sovereign Government impleaded - Sovereign immunity.
The defendant, a colonel in the Spanish army, came to Eire as head of a commission appointed by the Spanish Government to purchase horses for the use of the Spanish army. He entered into a contract with the plaintiffs, the Saorstat and Continental Steamship Co. Ltd., whereby it was agreed that the plaintiffs should reserve, on the defendant's behalf, accommodation aboard...
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McElhinney v Williams
...484 UNFAIR DISMISSALS ACT 1977 STATE IMMUNITY ACT 1978 S5 (UK) CONSTITUTION ART 29.3 SAORSTAT & CONTINENTAL STEAMSHIP CO V DE LAS MORENAS 1945 IR 291 CONGRESS DEL PARTIDO 1983 AC 244 CHRISTINA, THE 1938 AC 485 LITTRELL V USA 1994 4 AER 203 FOREIGN SOVEREIGN IMMUNITIES ACT 1976 S1605(a) (U......
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Canada v Employment Appeals Tribunal and Burke
...Hanna J. in Zarine v. Owners of SS. "Ramava"IR [1942] I.R. 148 approved; Saorstát and Continental Steamship Company v. De las MorenasIR [1945] I.R. 291 considered; Congreso del PartidoELR [1983] 1 A.C. 244 followed. 2. That the doctrine of sovereign state immunity was no longer a generally ......
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A C W v Ireland
...291. L.R. v. D.R. (Unreported, High Court, Costello J., 2nd April, 1992). Saorstát and Continental Steamship Co. v. de las Morenas [1945] I.R. 291; (1945) 79 I.L.T.R. 139. The State (Healy) v. Donoghue [1976] I.R. 325; (1975) 110 I.L.T.R. 9. The State (Sumers Jennings) v. Furlong [1966] I.R......
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Schmidt v Secretary of State for the Home Department
...& SECRETARY OF STATE FOR NORTHERN IRELAND UNREP SUPREME 15.12.95 1995/19/4966 SAORSTAT & CONTINENTAL STEAMSHIP CO LTD V DE LAS MORENAS 1945 IR 291 R V COMMISSIONER OF POLICE OF METROPOLIS EX PARTE BLACKBURN 1968 1 AER 763 POLICE ACT 1964 S19(1) (UK) PLAYA LARGA V I CONGRESO DEL PARTIDO 198......
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1 books & journal articles
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Abusing the authority of the state: denying foreign official immunity for egregious human rights abuses.
...Officially Immune?, supra note 6, at 4-5; Tomonori, supra note 21, at 266-73. (34.) Saorstat & Cont'l S.S. Co. v. De las Morenas, [1945] I.R. 291, 300 (35.) Id. (36.) Id. at 300-03. (37.) Twycross v. Dreyfus, [1877] 5 Ch.D. 605 (C.A.) (Eng.). (38.) Rahimtoola v. Nizam of Hyderabad, [195......
