PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW Name of the Case: SADC Asylum Case (Asante/Gopenia) Year of the decision: 2014 Court: SADC Tribunal Legal Issues before the Tribunal: 1. Is Asante competent‚ as the country that grants asylum‚ to unilaterally qualify the offence for the purpose of asylum under treaty law and international law? 2. Was Gopenia‚ as the territorial State‚ bound to give a guarantee of safe passage? The Tribunal’s Decision: As a point of departure‚ Article 38(1) UN Charter provides
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1 Sources of Company Law 1.1 W HAT IS COMPANY LAW? For the last century and a half a complex body of legislation called the Companies Acts has declared that if anyone presents to Companies House the documents required to form a ‘company’‚ the Registrar of Companies will issue a Certificate of Incorporation stating‚ like a birth certificate‚ that a new person‚ a ‘limited company’‚ has that day come into being. This robotic person‚ ‘owned’ by its shareholders‚ has no arms or legs‚ nor even
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Name Teacher AP US History September 20‚ 2012 President Richard M. Nixon’s administration had to face many international and domestic challenges in the United States between 1968 and 1974‚ some positive and some negative. His achievements in expanding peaceful relationships with both China and the Soviet Union are contrastingly different with his continuation of the Vietnam War. In the end‚ Nixon’s scandals and abuse of presidential power caught up to him‚ and his administration did much to
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Lecture 4 & 5 - CISG- International Contracts of Sale of Goods Contract The issues in this case is -- what is the governing law? -- Does CISG apply? -- Is there a breach of contract by (seller) as regards to (a) Delay of delivery (b) quality if wines? -- What are the remedies available to (buyer)? 1. Is there a choice of law clause? ( Yes – Australian is the governing law ) ( No- where there is no choice of law clause in the sale contract‚ courts will choose the law of nation which has the ‘ closest
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(10 points each) 1. The Blowout Company is a German corporation and manufacturer of the California Custom tire‚ a tire that is compatible with Harley Davidson motorcycles manufactured in the United States. Tofu Granola‚ a resident of Santa Cruz‚ California‚ purchased a pair of California Custom tires for his Harley. Granola purchased the tires from Goodstone Tires‚ Inc.‚ a California corporation‚ at its store in Half Moon Bay‚ California. The Blowout Company and Goodstone provided assistance
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Nature and scope of private international law Private international law is a set of procedural rules which determines which legal system‚ law of’ which jurisdiction‚ applies when legal dispute has a "foreign element"‚ such as contract agreed by parties located in different countries. It is a branch of English law known as the ’conflict of laws’. By a foreign element is meant simply a contact with some system of law other than English law‚ it has three main objects: Firstly‚ to prescribe the conditions
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Public International Law Assignment 24/10/2012 10340269 3BBL As an expert you have been approached: (a) By the International Court of Justice to offer a brief opinion on the possible amendment of Article 38 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice to reflect the diversity of sources of international law Introduction Sources of international law has long been a contentious matter amongst legal commentators and academics in the sphere of the international legal system. At
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With rapidly economic development‚ an increasing number of international pollution has aroused people to pay more attention to environment protection. People excessively exploit the natural resources due to the big gap between economic development demand and natural source supply. I am amazed when I heared some people saying that individuals have no contribution to cope with international pollution. As for me‚ nothing is further from the truth than this view. In the first place‚ everyone can
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on the above circumstances‚ answer the following questions: 1. Assess the ability of Maligait to exist as a state under international law. The issue is whether Maligait can exist as a state under international law. According to Vitoria‚ state is defined as a perfect state or community complete in itself which is not part of another community but has its own laws‚ council‚ magistrate and has authority to declare war. The traditional criteria for statehood can be found in the Article 1
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It Should Be Law! Handguns and teens do not go together. Why then is the number of young people being killed by handguns increasing each year? It is against the law for anyone under the age of twenty-one to handle a gun‚ but it seems that this law isn’t being followed by the world today. Many people have guns in their homes‚ for “protection” they say‚ but one cannot honestly say that the weapon killing young people is a good means of protection. As a nation‚ a society‚ the people of today should
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