Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 July 2009
There are very few cases in which India has been a party to litigation before foreign courts on the question of sovereign immunity.
1. Second Session, Cairo (1–13 October 1958), issued by the Secretariat of the Committee, New Delhi.
2. AD 1941–42, Case No. 10, vol. 10 p. 38.
3. 28 ILR (1963) p. 150.
4. 446 F.2d.1198, US Court of Appeal 2nd circuit, 27 July 1971. Certiori denied, 7 December 1971, 404 US 985 (cited from 1972 AJIL p. 396).
5. Under the Constitution of India contracts with the Union of India are required to be entered into in the name of the President of India (Art. 299).
6. 324 US 30 (1945).
7. For comments on the judgment, see Brower, C.N., “Litigation of Soveriegn Immunity before a State Administrative Body and the Department of State: The Japanese Uranium Tax Case,” 71 AJIL (1977) at pp. 450–451CrossRefGoogle Scholar. See also 13 Harvard International Law Journal (1972) pp. 527, 533.Google Scholar
8. See n. 1 supra at p. 48.of the Report.
9. See n. 1 supra at p. 49 of the Report.
10. Ibid. p. 34.