Sovereign immunity — Foreign States — Sale of goods — Claim for shortage in delivery — Attachment of funds — Whether foreign State entitled to jurisdictional immunity — Acts iure imperii and iure gestionis — The law of the Netherlands

Sovereign immunity — Foreign States — Consular employee — Citizen of receiving State — Contract of employment — Termination of — Claim for unlawful dismissal — Whether foreign State entitled to jurisdictional immunity — Acts iure imperii and iure gestionis — Waiver — Whether appearance in order to plead immunity constitutes waiver — The law of the Netherlands

Sovereign immunity — Foreign States and their property — Consular employee — Claim in tort — Whether foreign State entitled to jurisdictional immunity — Acts iure imperii and iure gestionis — Attachment of funds — Whether foreign State entitled to immunity from attachment — Whether purpose for which funds were intended was relevant — The law of the Netherlands

Sovereign immunity — Foreign States — Sale of goods — Claim for shortage in delivery — Whether foreign State entitled to jurisdictional immunity — Waiver — Whether appearance in court without invoking immunity constitutes waiver — The law of the Netherlands

Sovereign immunity — Foreign States and their entities — Foreign State school — Teacher employed by ministry of foreign State — Contract of employment — Termination of — Claim for unlawful dismissal — Whether foreign State entitled to jurisdictional immunity — Acts iure imperii and iure gestionis — The law of the Netherlands

Sovereign immunity — Foreign States and their departments — Police authority of foreign State — Action for injunction to prevent publication of material, allegedly contained in police report — Whether head of foreign police authority entitled to jurisdictional immunity — Whether exercise of police power an activity iure imperii — The law of the Netherlands

Sovereign immunity — Foreign States — Lease of premises for embassy use — Termination of lease — Action for compensation for damage to property and failure to vacate upon termination — Arbitration clause in tenancy agreement — Application by lessor to municipal courts for appointment of arbitrator — Whether foreign State entitled to jurisdictional immunity — Waiver — Whether arbitration clause constitutes waiver — The law of Sweden

Sovereign immunity — Foreign States and their property — Lease of building for use as diplomatic premises — Action for breach of lease — Whether foreign State entitled to jurisdictional immunity — Requirement of close connection between case and forum — Acts iure imperii and iure gestionis — Whether distinction to be made according to nature or purpose of act — Attachment of bank deposits — Immunity from attachment — Whether power of enforcement automatically follows from power to exercise jurisdiction — Whether attachment requires proof of the existence of a debt — Relevance of purpose for which attached funds allocated by State — Whether lack of allocation of State funds for specific purpose renders them liable to attachment — The law of Switzerland

Sovereign immunity — Foreign States and State-owned corporations and their property — Italian State Railways — Action for breach of loan agreement — Whether Italian State Railways entitled to jurisdictional immunity — Whether Italian State Railways endowed with independent legal personality — Acts iure imperii and iure gestionis — Requirement of close connection between case and forum — Attachment of shares — Immunity from attachment — Shares in Eurofima purchased by Italian State Railways — Legal states of Eurofima — Whether such shares immune from attachment as assets allocated for the performance of a State function — Relevance of distinction between patrimonial and administrative State assets — Whether purpose for which assets are allocated is decisive — The law of Switzerland

Sovereign immunity — Foreign States — Order for security for costs against foreign State — Whether Foreign State entitled to immunity — Whether such order a measure of execution — Immunity from execution — Whether sovereign nature of act or claim relevant — The law of Switzerland

States as international persons — Sovereignty and independence — In foreign relations — Request for mutual assistance by foreign State — European Convention on mutual assistance in criminal matters, 1959 — Seizure of strong box by municipal authorities — Alleged violation of Articles 2 & 5 of Convention — Vacation of seizure by municipal courts — Appeal by foreign State — Whether foreign State entitled to bring appeal — Whether foreign State acting iure imperii or iure gestionis — The law of Switzerland

Sovereign immunity — Foreign States and their property — Proceedings instituted by foreign State — Order for costs against foreign State — Attachment of assets of foreign State — Whether foreign State entitled to immunity from execution — Whether foreign State acting iure gestionis — Distinction between patrimonial assets of a State and those devoted to performance of governmental activity — Method to be used in notifying documents to foreign State — The law of Switzerland

Sovereign immunity — Foreign States and agencies — Central bank of foreign State — Action for repayment under loan agreement between commercial banks — Requirement of repayment through central bank pursuant to foreign exchange legislation — Attachment of bank deposits of central bank — Whether central bank entitled to immunity from jurisdiction and enforcement — Whether fact that central bank endowed with independent legal personality decisive — European Convention on State Immunity 1972, Article 4 and 27 — Whether declaratory of existing international law — Acts iure imperii and iure gestionis — Whether original nature of relationship decisive — The law of Switzerland

Sovereign immunity — Foreign States and agencies and their property — Agreement for lease of films by television authority of foreign State — Action for breach of agreement — Whether authority entitled to jurisdictional immunity — European Convention on State Immunity, 1972, Articles 1 to 15 — Whether declaratory of existing international law on jurisdictional immunity of States — Acts iure imperii and iure gestionis — Whether nature or purpose of act decisive — Requirement of close connection between case and forum — Attachment of assets — Immunity from attachment — European Convention on State Immunity, 1972, Article 23 — Whether declaratory of existing international law on immunity from enforcement of States — Egyptian Office of Information and Tourism — Whether entitled to immunity from attachment — Whether its assets allocated for the performance of sovereign functions — Relevance of distinction between patrimonial and administrative assets — Whether purpose for which assets are allocated is decisive — The law of Switzerland

Sovereign immunity — Foreign States — As plaintiff — Application by foreign State for attachment of assets — Whether foreign State prevented from bringing action by reason of its jurisdictional immunity — Waiver — Whether initiation of proceedings constitutes waiver of immunity from related counterclaims — The law of Switzerland

Sovereign immunity — Foreign States — Action brought by France in Togolese courts prior to independence — Effect of accession of Togo to independence — Whether France subsequently entitled to assert jurisdictional immunity as a foreign State — Waiver — Whether participation in the proceedings following Togolese independence constitutes waiver of immunity — The law of Togo

Sovereign immunity–Foreign States and state-owned corporations–Contract for construction of gas pipeline containing arbitration clause–Dispute between French contractor and state-owned corporation–Submission to arbitration–Dissolution of state-owned corporation and transfer of assets to foreign State–Whether foreign State replaces corporation as party to arbitration agreement–Whether foreign State entitled to jurisdictional immunity in arbitral proceedings–Acts iure imperii and iure gestionis–Requirement of close connection between legal relationship and the forum–The law of Switzerland as the procedural law

Sovereign immunity–Foreign States–Commercial agreement between private companies and foreign State containing arbitration clause–Submission ofdispute to arbitration–Whether foreign State entitled to plead jurisdictional immunity from arbitral proceedings–Whether doctrine of sovereign immunity applicable to arbitral proceedings