International law — Relation to municipal law — Whether customary international law part of law of Burma — Constitution of Burma, Sections 211, 213 and 214.

Jurisdiction — Exemptions from — Foreign States — Immunity from criminal jurisdiction of representative of official foreign news agency — Dependence of immunity upon incorporation of international law rules in municipal law — The law of Burma.

Jurisdiction — Personal — Over nationals in respect of crimes committed abroad — Non-extraditable offence punishable only in State where committed — The law of Switzerland.

Jurisdiction — Personal — Over nationals in respect of crimes committed abroad — Act at once a crime and a civil wrong — Criminal jurisdiction under treaty over members of armed forces stationed abroad — Convention concerning Rights and Obligations of Foreign Armed Forces in Federal Republic of Germany, 1954 — Interpretation of “criminal jurisdiction” — Whether covering civil action joined to criminal proceedings — Meaning given to terms by national law — The law of Belgium.

Jurisdiction — Personal — Over nationals in respect of crimes committed abroad — Location of offence of cheating — Cheque mailed to accused from outside State — Whether affects location of offence — The law of India.

Jurisdiction — Personal — Over nationals in respect of crimes committed abroad — Whether court has jurisdiction — The law of Malaya.

Jurisdiction — Personal — Over nationals abroad — Power to tax national abroad — The law of the United States of America.

Jurisdiction — On the high seas — Enforcement of municipal laws — Criminal jurisdiction — Effect of offence on interests of State — Broadcasting from outside territorial waters — The law of Denmark.

Treaties — Conclusion and operation of — Effect on third parties — Individual applicant to European Commission of Human Rights Whether having rights under European Convention for Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms which make him directly concerned in resulting case before European Court of Human Rights.

International organization — European Commission and Court of Human Rights — Rights of Commission concerning transmission of its Report to applicant — Extent of competence of Court — Status of individual applicant before the Court.

European Court of Human Rights — Extent of competence — Status of individual applicant to European Commission of Human Rights with regard to resulting case before Court.

Treaties — Conclusion and operation of — Effect on third parties — Individual applicant to European Commission of Human Rights — Whether having rights under European Convention for Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms which make him directly concerned in resulting case before European Court of Human Rights.

Treaties — Interpretation of — Consideration of preparatory work — Relevance of fact that preparatory work drawn up in several languages — European Convention on Human Rights.

The individual in international law — Human rights and freedoms — European Convention for Protection of — Right to liberty and security of person (Article 5) — Arrest and detention to restrain person from committing offence — Requirement that such deprivation of liberty be for purpose of bringing detainee before judicial authority (Article 5 (1) (c) and (3)) — Prohibition of retroactive criminal legislation (Article 7) — Applicability of Article 7 to detention as preventive measure — Right of Party to derogate from Convention in public emergency (Article 15) — Competence of Court to examine whether conditions for derogation fulfilled — Circumstances amounting to “public emergency threatening the life of the nation” — Requirement that measures taken should be “strictly required by the exigencies of the situation” — Relevance of safeguard provisions in statute authorizing detention of suspects-Relevance of existence of administrative body to which detainee could refer his case — Relevance of Government promise to release detainees on undertaking to observe law — Requirement of notification of measures to Secretary-General (Article 15 (3)) — Notification of reasons for measures — Exercise of protected rights and freedoms subject to Article 17 — Whether Article 17 operates to deprive person of rights guaranteed by Convention.

Nationality — Acquisition of — By adoption — Whether adult alien adopted by national acquires nationality of adopter — The law of Spain.

Nationality — Naturalization — As affected by claim of exemption from military service — National of neutral State — Effect of State's later becoming co-belligerent — The law of the United States of America.

Aliens — Position of — Subjection to territorial sovereignty of receiving State — Liability to military service — Exemption under treaty — Claim of exemption as disqualification for naturalization — The law of the United States of America.

Nationality — Naturalization — As affected by claim of exemption from military service under treaty — The law of the United States of America.

Nationality — In general — Distinction between nationality and citizenship — Denationalization — Through oath of allegiance to foreign State — The law of the United States of America.

Nationality — Denationalization — Through oath of allegiance to foreign State — Purpose and meaning of oath — Nationality and citizenship distinguished — The law of the United States of America.

Aliens — Admission of — Refugees — Illegal entry — Requirement that request for refugee status must be made without delay — The law of Belgium.

Aliens — Position of — Treatment by receiving State — Equality of treatment — The law of Spain.

Aliens — Treatment of — Limitation of movement within country — The law of Belgium.

Aliens — Treatment of — Refugees — Recognition of status of — Procedure — Aliens previously expelled from the country — The law of Belgium.

Aliens — Position of — Treatment by receiving State — Restriction on movement — Whether Executive order can be used to restrict movements of alien on unrestricted bail in criminal action — Effect of Involuntary entry — Scope of Foreigners Act and Foreigners Order — The law of India.

Treaties — Parties to — Dependent territories — Agreement between Provisional Government of colony and Government of colonial Power in anticipation of independence of colony — Agreement never replaced by formal treaty between the two independent States — Continuing validity of Agreement — Exchange of Notes between Governments of Burma and United Kingdom, 1947 — The law of Burma.

Aliens — Position of — Responsibilities of receiving State — Under international agreement — Undertaking not to take action which would prejudicially affect existing foreign business interests — Undertaking never included in formal commercial treaty — Continuing validity of undertaking in absence of treaty — Exchange of Notes between Governments of Burma and United Kingdom prior to independence of Burma — “Burmanization” of import trade — The law of Burma.

International law — Relation to municipal law — Statute of component entity of federal State inconsistent with treaty — Treaty granting aliens national treatment as to workmen’s compensation benefits — Effect of illegal entry of alien — The law of the United States of America.

Treaties — Operation and enforcement of — Effect in municipal law — Treaty as prevailing over inconsistent municipal statute of component entity of federal State — Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation — Non — discrimination against aliens as to workmen's compensation benefits — Effect of illegal entry of alien — The law of the United States of America.

Aliens — Position of — Plea of non-discrimination — National treatment standard under treaty — Workmen's compensation benefits for alien employee — Treaty as prevailing over inconsistent municipal statute of component entity of federal State — Effect of alien's illegal entry into receiving State — The law of the United States of America.