Governments — Recognition — Libya — National Transitional Council — Statement by the United Kingdom Government that it recognized the National Transitional Council as the sole Government of Libya — Effects — Bank accounts operated by Libyan Embassy in London — Whether bank entitled to act on instructions from representative of National Transitional Council — Certificate by Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs — Whether conclusive

Diplomatic relations — Diplomats — Accreditation — Statement by the United Kingdom Government that it recognized the National Transitional Council as the sole Government of Libya — Appointment of Chargé d’Affaires in London by National Transitional Council — Expulsion of diplomats appointed by former government — Authority to give instructions regarding embassy bank accounts — The law of England

State immunity — Jurisdictional immunity — Retroactivity — Restrictive doctrine of immunity — Tate Letter, 1952 — Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act 1976 — Whether applicable to acts taking place before 1952 — Nature of State immunity — Whether foreign States having a right to immunity — Whether immunity merely a matter of comity — Property of Jewish owner seized during Second World War — Expropriation exception to immunity

Comity — State immunity — Whether immunity a matter of comity or a legal right — The law of the United States of America

State immunity — Jurisdictional immunity — Officials — Definition of “foreign State” — Whether including individual officials of foreign State — United States Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act 1976 inapplicable to individual officials — Immunity of individual officials under common law — The law of the United States of America