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United Kingdom: House of Lords Decision in Owners of Cargo On Board The Vessel Siskina, Et Al. V. Distos Compania Naviera S.A. (Jurisdiction; Attachment of Insurance Proceeds of Foreign Defendants)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 March 2017

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Judicial and Similar Proceedings
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1978

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* [Reproduced from the text provided to International Legal Materials by the Judicia Office of the House of Lords. The page numbers of the decision have been maintained throughout the text so that the corrigenda at I.L.M. page 892 will correspond to the quoted text.

[On October 26, 1977, it was ordered and adjudged that “the said Order of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal of the 1st day of June 1977, complained of in the said Appeal, be, and the same is hereby Reversed, and that the judgment and Order of the Honourable Mr. Justice Kerr of the 20th day of December 1976 whereby inter alia it was adjudged and ordered that Service of Notice of the Writ and all subsequent proceedings therein be set aside, set aside by the Court of Appeal, be, and the same is hereby, Restored: and it is further Ordered, That the Respondents do pay or cause to be paid, to the said Appellants the Costs incurred by them in the Courts below, and also the Costs incurred by them in respect of the said Appeal to this House, the amount of such last-mentioned Costs to be certified by the Clerk of the Parliaments: and it is also further Ordered, That the Cause be, and the same is hereby, remitted back to the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, to do therein as shall be just and consistent with this Judgment.”]