Jurisdiction — Personal — Over nationals abroad and their property abroad — Corporations — Corporation with French shareholders and head office in Algeria before and after independence — Nationalization of corporation and vesting of assets in Algerian public corporation — Purported transfer of head office of nationalized corporation to France — Assets abroad — Whether former directors or nationalized corporation entitled — Whether court of place of head office before nationalization has jurisdiction over affairs of corporation The law of Algeria.

The individual in international law — Nationality — Of corporations — Corporation founded to exploit mining concession in Algeria — Corporation statutes and concession agreements providing for head office in Algeria and jurisdiction of Algerian courts over disputes, and reserving ultimate control over corporation to Governor-General of Algeria — Legal status of Algeria before independence — Effect of independence on nationality — Continuity of law and administration — Affirmation of Algerian nationality by corporation after independence — Nationalization — Whether corporation subject to Algerian law — Whether transfer of head office to France and other acts of directors valid — Whether former directors entitled to represent corporation and claim assets abroad — Whether nationality of shareholders relevant criterion for determination of nationality of corporation — The law of Algeria.

Aliens — Expulsion of — Deportation order — United States serviceman — Aliens Order, 1953 — No power to make deportation order — Deportation order inapt — The law of England.

Extradition — Conditions of — Fugitive offender — Warrants issued in Commonwealth country charging obtaining money by false pretences — Offence not offence in United Kingdom — Authority to proceed related to offences disclosed in warrants — No “relevant offence” under Fugitive Offenders Act, 1967, disclosed by warrants — Application for habeas corpus allowed — The law of England.

Diplomatic privileges and immunities — Subordinate members of staff — Alleged breach of tenancy agreement — Technical and administrative officers — Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, 1961 — Modified privilege of technical and administrative officers — Subsisting action stayed on ground of immunity — Diplomatic Privileges Act, 1964 — The law of England.

Consuls — Functions of — Discharge of seaman in foreign port — Duty of consul to sanction discharge — Effect of failure by master of ship to obtain such sanction — Merchant Shipping Act, 1906 — The law of England.

Treaties — Operation and enforcement of — Necessity for municipal legislation — Convention implemented by statute — Assessment to Income tax — Application of proceeds in part for purposes allegedly contrary to Convention ratified by United Kingdom Government — Statute law prevails in conflict between Convention and statute — Geneva Conventions Act, 1957 — The law of England.

Treaties — Operation of — Warsaw Convention relating to International Carriage by Air, 1929 (Article 22) — Interpretation of municipal legislation giving effect to Convention — Discrepancy between official text of Convention and English translation — Carriage by Air Act, 1932 — Whether limitation of liability of carrier excluded by lack of particulars in air consignment note — The law of England.

International organization — Officials — Privileges and immunities of — Members of European Commission of Human Rights — Member entitled in respect of acts done in official capacity to like immunity of envoy of foreign Power — Immunity continued after ceasing to hold office — International Organisations (Immunities and Privileges) Act, 1950 — Council of Europe (Immunities and Privileges) Order, 1960 — The law of England.

Disputes — Arbitration — Miscellaneous — Capacity of State to submit to arbitration — Municipal law limitations — Whether French State has capacity to conclude agreement for compulsory arbitration of disputes arising under private law contract — The law of France.

Warfare on land — Occupation of enemy territory — Nature and effects of — Assimilation of enemy — occupied territory to enemy territory for purposes of trading with the enemy legislation — The law of France.

War in general — Effects of outbreak of — Trading with the enemy — Contract between French company and German company concluded in German-occupied France — Whether void under trading with the enemy legislation — The law of France.

Warfare on land — Appropriation, utilization and destruction of enemy property — Sequestration of German-owned patents — London Accord concerning the treatment of German-owned patents, 1946 — Disposal of German-owned patents (Article 1) — Right of signatory Governments to protect rights acquired by non-Germans (Article 4) — Application of — The law of France.

Warfare on land — Occupation of enemy territory — Nature and effects of — Applicability of local law to members of occupying forces — Local law relating to formalities of marriage — Applicability to member of forces associated with and under control of occupying forces — Status of Polish Army in Germany in 1945 — Whether Polish forces were in belligerent occupation of Germany — The law of England.

Warfare on land — Occupation of enemy territory — Legislative, judicial and administrative functions of Occupant — Judicial tribunals — German court in occupied France — Judgments-French legislation providing for review — Extent of powers of review — The law of France.

States — Continuity of — Germany — London Agreements, 1944 — Declaration of Berlin, 1945 — Whether French occupation authorities in Germany Regarded as temporary German internal administration — Whether subject to jurisdiction of French courts — The law of France

Warfare on land — Occupation of enemy territory — Legislative, judicial and administrative functions of Occupant — French occupation authorities in Germany — Status of — London Agreements, 1944 — Declaration of Berlin, 1945 — Whether decisions of French occupation authorities regarded as decisions of French authorities or as temporary German internal administration — Whether subject to supervisory jurisdiction of French tribunals — The law of France.

International law in general — Relation to municipal law — Effect of treaty validly incorporated in municipal law affecting rights of private persons — Hague Regulations, 1907 (Article 53) — Right of private persons to compensation for property requisitioned by Occupying Power — Agreement on German External Debts, 1953, deferring private claims-Whether signatory State liable to compensate private persons affected — The law of France.

Warfare on land — Occupation of enemy territory — Respect for private property — Requisitions — Hague Regulations, 1907 (Article 53) — Private claims against Occupying Power — Effect of treaties regarding German reparations and external debts — Deferment of claims — Responsibility of States signatories to these agreements — The French State — Whether liable to pay compensation for German requisitions — The law of France.