Sovereign immunity — Foreign States and State-owned corporations and their property — Expropriation of assets by foreign State — Action brought by American company for recovery of assets from Chilean State copper corporation — Whether entitled to jurisdictional immunity — Acts iure imperii and iure gestionis — Attachment of funds payable to State corporation for sales of copper — Whether State corporation entitled to immunity from execution — Appointment of expert to determine use of funds — Whether expropriation by a foreign State without adequate compensation can be recognised in municipal courts — The law of France

Sovereign immunity — Foreign States and their agencies — Lease of premises for use of Spanish National Tourist Office — Action for eviction — Whether Spanish State entitled to jurisdictional immunity — Acts iures gestionis and iure imperii — The law of France

Sovereign immunity — Foreign States and agencies — Bank of Japan — Foreign exchange control procedures — Subjection of international film distribution agreement to authorisation — Non-execution of agreement — Liability of Bank of Japan — Whether Bank of Japan entitled to jurisdictional immunity — Acts iure imperii and iure gestionis — The law of France

Sovereign immunity — Foreign States and State-owned corporations — Vessel operated by Soviet State-owned shipping company — Liability for carriage of goods — Whether shipping company entitled to jurisdictional immunity — Legal status of shipping company — Acts iure imperii and iure gestionis — The law of France

Sovereign immunity — Foreign States — State agencies and their property — Algerian State Pension Fund — Claim for accrued pension rights of repatriated French lawyers — Whether State pension fund entitled to immunity from jurisdiction — Activities iure imperii and iure gestionis — Attachment of bank balances of State pension fund — Whether entitled to immunity from execution — Test of whether funds in question distinct from funds of Algerian State — The law of France

Sovereign immunity — Foreign States and State-controlled corporations — Expropriation of assets by foreign State — Claim brought by French companies against Algerian company to which assets transferred by Algerian State — Whether Algerian company entitled to jurisdictional immunity — Whether action in reality directed against sovereign act of Algerian State — The law of France

Sovereign immunity — Property of Foreign States — Execution of arbitral award against Nigerian State — Immunity from execution — Attachment of funds owed to Nigerian State in hands of banking and financial establishments — Whether Nigeria entitled to absolute immunity from execution — Waiver — The law of France

Sovereign immunity — Property of Foreign States and State-owned corporations — Enforcement of arbitral award against Libyan State — Immunity from execution — Attachment of funds in hands of Libyan State-owned undertakings — Whether such funds immune from attachment — Test of whether funds allocated for sovereign activities or derived from private commercial activities — Whether present impossibility of making such a breakdown prevents attachment — Appointment of experts to determine use of funds — The law of France

Sovereign immunity — Foreign States and State-owned corporations — Expropriation of assets by foreign State — Action for restitution against Algerian company holding expropriated assets — Whether company entitled to jurisdictional immunity or immunity from execution — Whether foreign State expropriation without adequate compensation can be recognised in municipal courts — Whether Algerian company an entity independent from Algerian State — Acts iure gestionis and iure imperii — Whether assets of company distinct from those of Algerian State — The law of France

Sovereign immunity — Foreign States — Action for damages against ministry of foreign State — Judgment given against Ministry — Waiver — Official seal of ministry stamped on receipt docket recording service of judgment — Whether constitutes acceptance of judgment preventing the ministry of foreign State from asserting jurisdictional immunity — The law of France

Sovereign immunity — Foreign States — Arbitration within framework of Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of other States, 1965 — Arbitral award of compensation against State in favour of foreign company — Enforcement of award — Article 54 of the Convention — Simplified procedure for obtaining an exequatur — Article 55 of the Convention — Preservation of immunity from execution of foreign States — Whether an order granting an exequatur constitutes a measure of execution — The law of France

Sovereign immunity — Property of foreign States and State-owned agencies — Agreements for construction and financing of enriched uranium factory and nuclear reactors for Iranian State — Repudiation of agreements by new regime in Iran — Action for damages — Conservatory attachment — Conditions for immunity from execution-Attachment of funds representing debts owned to Iranian State in repayment of loan to finance nuclear programme — Whether such funds to be regarded as allocated for a specific commercial activity — Whether absence of specific allocation for any purpose prevents attachment — Whether the production of enriched uranium is a sovereign activity — Waiver — Whether adoption of arbitration rules of the International Chamber of Commerce constitutes waiver — The law of France

Sovereign immunity — Foreign States, State-owned corporations and Public Ships — Soviet State shipping organisation — Legal status — Whether entitled to jurisdictional immunity — Whether endowed with independent legal personality — Relevance of Soviet State — monopoly of trade and commerce — Claim arising from collision at sea — Immunity of Soviet merchant vessel from attachment — Status of Soviet merchant fleet — Activities iure imperii and iure gestionis — Classification according to municipal law — Whether State shipping organisation has legal capacity to be a party to proceedings — Applicable law — The law of the Federal Republic of Germany

Sovereign immunity — Foreign States and their property — Premises of Yugoslav military mission — Dispute as to ownership of property — Claim for rectification of land register — Whether Yugoslav State entitled to jurisdictional immunity — Whether claim interferes with proper functioning of mission — Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations 1961, Article 31 (1)(a) — Whether jurisdictional immunity of diplomatic agents separate from immunity of sending State — The law of the Federal Republic of Germany

Sovereign immunity — Foreign States and their property — Premises of former Hungarian Embassy — Claim against Hungarian State for arrears of mortgage interest — Whether Hungarian State entitled to jurisdictional immunity — Acts iuri imperii and iure gestionis — Whether land in question immune from execution where no longer used for diplomatic purposes — Test of whether the ability of diplomatic mission to function would be impaired — The law of the Federal Republic of Germany

Sovereign immunity — Property of foreign States — Enforcement of default judgment against foreign State — Whether foreign State entitled to immunity from execution — Attachment of funds in bank accounts of consular agencies of foreign State — Whether such funds devoted to sovereign purposes — Classification of funds under municipal law — Distinction between administrative and fiscal assets — Whether insertion of forum clause in lease constitutes submission to measures of execution — The law of the Federal Republic of Germany

Sovereign immunity — Foreign States — Claim for payment under arms sales commission agreement — Whether foreign State entitled to jurisdictional immunity — Restrictive theory of sovereign immunity — Acts iure imperii and iure gestionis — The law of the Federal Republic of Germany

Sovereign immunity — Foreign States — Sale of real property by ambassador on behalf of foreign State — Requirement of proof of authority to dispose of property of another — Extent of ambassador's authority to enter into commercial transactions — Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, 1961, Article 3(1) (a) — Whether representative of foreign State subject to requirement to prove authority — Acts iure imperii and iure gestionis — The law of the Federal Republic of Germany

Sovereign Immunity — Foreign States — Purchase of building for use as consulate of foreign State — Claim for broker's commission — Whether foreign State entitled to jurisdictional immunity — Restrictive theory of sovereign immunity — Acts iure imperii and iure gestionis — Whether claim interferes with proper functioning of consulate — The law of the Federal Republic of Germany

Sovereign immunity — Foreign States — Expropriation of property-Claim for compensation — Whether Polish State entitled to jurisdictional immunity — Whether legislative activity a sovereign activity — Whether entitlement to immunity depends on ability of foreign State to act sovereignly in its territory — Whether the fixing of a date for a hearing constitutes an exercise of jurisdiction — Whether a plaintiffs lack of legal rights in a foreign State relevant — The law of the Federal Republic of Germany