Warfare on land — Occupation of enemy territory — Legislative, judicial and administrative functions of Occupant — Authority of regional commander to issue orders by virtue of occupation — Limits imposed by requirements of natural justice and international law — Hague Convention No. IV, 1907 — Geneva Convention relative to Protection of Civilians in Time of War, 1949 — International law and municipal law — The law of Israel.

Warfare on land — Occupation of enemy territory — Legislative, judicial and administrative functions of Occupant — Jurisdiction of military courts — Continuance of former emergency regulations without express repeal — Effect of emergency law — Parallel existence of emergency laws with all ordinary legislation — The law of Israel.

Warfare on land — Occupation of enemy territory — Legislative, judicial and administrative functions of Occupant — Jurisdiction of military court not dependant on sovereignty — Geneva Convention Relative to Protection of Civilians, 1949 — Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 (Article 13) — The law of Israel.

Warfare on land — Occupation of enemy territory — Legislative, judicial and administrative functions of Occupant — Non-discriminatory application of legislation — Equal freedom of access to Holy Places — Status of Old City of Jerusalem — The law of Israel.

Warfare on land — Occupation of enemy territory — Legislative, judicial and administrative functions of Occupant — Jurisdiction of military court — Absence of appellate tribunal — Geneva Convention relative to Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, 1949 (Article 73) — Whether right of petition limited to form of appeal — The law of Israel.

Warfare on land — Appropriation, utilization and destruction of enemy property — Booty — Property looted by German forces in Hungary and found at end of war in Austria in vicinity of war material — Whether booty of war — The law of France.

Warfare on land — Appropriation, utilization and destruction of enemy property — Peace Treaty with Japan, 1951 (Article 14) — Provision for appropriation by Allied Powers of Japanese property rights and interests under their control — Seizure of Japanese film by United States authorities — Subsequent production of American film containing scenes from Japanese film — Action for breach of copyright by owners of copyright in Japanese film against distribitors of American film in France — Whether rights acquired by United States under Japanese Peace Treaty confined to United States territory — Whether rights of Japanese owner of copyright deemed to have been renounced — Whether protection under French copyright law and Berne Convention subsisting — The law of France.

Warfare on Land — Appropriation, utilization and destruction of enemy property — Paris Agreement, 1946 — Property of German nationals in France — Whether automatically transferred to French State — The law of France.

Warfare on land — Appropriation, utilization and destruction of enemy property — Paris Agreement, 1946 — Property of German nationals in France — Marriage between German and French nationals — Acquisition of private property of German national by French State — Whether affecting matrimonial property regime — The law of France.

Warfare on land — Occupation of enemy territory — Legislative functions of Occupant — Order of occupation authorities extending right of audience in courts of occupied area to advocates of occupying State not normally qualified to practise there — Compatibility with Hague Rules, Article 43 — Whether courts of occupied area competent to review discretion of occupying authority — Right of Israeli advocate to appear in civil court in occupied “West Bank” area — The law of Jordan.

Arbitration — Procedure — Competence — Arbitral Commission on Property, Rights and Interests in Germany — Whether competent to decide on compensation for unrestitutable property.

Warfare on land — Occupation of enemy territory — Respect for private property — Restitution of merchandise requisitioned in occupied territory — Claim under Convention on Settlement of Matters arising out of the War and the Occupation — Basis of such claim — Requirement of existence and traceability of object to be restituted.

Alien — Notion of — For purposes of foreign exchange regulations — The law of Germany.

Arbitration — Procedure — Competence — Arbitral Commission on Property, Rights and Interests in Germany — Whether competent to order measures other than those envisaged in Treaty establishing Commission.

Arbitration — Award — Arbitral Commission on Property, Rights and Interests in Germany — Non — applicability of decision to non — participants in proceedings.

Disputes — Negotiation — Absence of duty to engage in.

Warfare on land — Occupation of enemy territory — Requisition of securities — When effected.

War — Effects of outbreak of — On property of enemy subjects — Discriminatory treatment — Notion of — German measures during Second World War — Non-discriminatory nature of domestic Law — As opposed to discriminatory application of such Law — Restitution of property wrongfully seized.

States as international persons — Sovereignty and independence — Conduct of foreign relations — Conclusiveness of statements of Executive — Inability of forum to apply foreign law made by persons not recognised by Executive as Government of independent State — Relevance of recognition of such laws by de jure sovereign of that country — Laws of Government of German Democratic Republic — Application by English court — Whether Government of German Democratic Republic acts as agent of U.S.S.R — The law of England.

States as international persons — Recognition — Of Governments Consequences of non — recognition — Application of laws of nonrecognized State in control of country not recognized as State by forum — Laws of Government of German Democratic Republic Application by English courts — Whether Government of German Democratic Republic acts as agent of U.S.S.R. — Relevance of status of U.S.S.R. as de jure sovereign — The law of England.

Warfare on land — Occupation of enemy territory — Legislative functions of Occupant — Delegation of legislative power — Germany — Position of authorities of U.S.S.R. — Status of German Democratic Republic.

States as international persons — Recognition — Of Governments — Consequences of non-recognition — Application of laws of non-recognized State in control of country not recognized as State by forum — Laws of Government of German Democratic Republic — Application by English courts — Whether Government of German Democratic Republic acts as agent of U.S.S.R. — Relevance of status of U.S.S.R. as de jure sovereign — The law of England.

Treaties — Interpretation of — Principles and rules of interpretation.

Arbitration — Procedure — Time — limits — Appeals.

War — Effects of outbreak of war — On enemy subjects — With regard to their property and other rights — Patents.

Warfare on land — Occupation of enemy territory — Legislative functions of Occupant — Occupation of Germany after Second World War.

Arbitration — Law applied by arbitral tribunals — Arbitral Commission on Property, Rights and Interests in Germany — Patents Restoration of — Law No.8 of Allied High Commission in Germany.

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 — 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.

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 — 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.