Sovereign immunity — Foreign States — Office of the Department of Commerce of Canada — Whether entitled to jurisdictional immunity — Effect of refusal to submit to the jurisdiction — The law of Argentina

Sovereign immunity — Foreign States — Jurisdictional immunity — Effect of lack of consent of foreign State to proceedings — The law of Argentina

Sovereign immunity — Foreign States and their property — Contract of employment — Termination of — Austrian university professor employed by the Republic of Indonesia — Whether claim can be brought in Austrian courts — Immunity from jurisdiction — Whether conclusion of contract an act iure gestionis — Attachment of bank deposits — Whether Indonesian State entitled to immunity from attachment — Whether purpose of funds over which attachment sought is relevant — The law of Austria

Sovereign immunity — Foreign States — Germany-Romania Population Transfer Agreement, 1940 — Obligation upon German Reich to pay compensation for loss of property consequent upon resettlement — Claim by private individual for payment of compensation — Whether Federal Republic of Germany entitled to jurisdictional immunity — Acts iure gestionis and iure imperii — Whether treaty obligation to pay compensation to individuals governed by private or public law — Whether such obligation a matter for legislation — The law of Austria

Sovereign immunity — Heads of foreign States — Claim against foreign Head of State arising from road accident — Whether entitled to absolute immunity from jurisdiction — Whether conclusion of automobile liability insurance constitutes waiver of immunity — The law of Austria

Sovereign immunity — Foreign States — Action based on guarantee given by bank — Foreign State sued in its capacity as owner of bank — Whether foreign State entitled to immunity from jurisdiction — Acts iure imperii and iure gestionis — The law of Austria

Sovereign immunity — foreign States — Action to enforce maintenance order against driver employed by embassy of foreign State — Immunity from execution — Whether attachment of earnings can be ordered where garnishee is a foreign State — Whether conclusion of contract of employment an act iure gestionis — Whether embassy driver entitled to diplomatic immunity — Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations 1961, Articles 37 and 38 — The law of Austria

Sovereign immunity — Public ships — Merchant vessel operated by foreign State-owned corporation — Claim by seamen against operators of vessel — Immunity from attachment — Arrest — Whether such vessel immune from arrest — Activities iure gestionis — Attest as safeguarding measure — Whether Belgian courts have jurisdiction to order arrest where jurisdiction to decide merits of claim is doubtful — Whether a safeguarding measure constitutes forcible execution — The law of Belgium

Sovereign immunity — Property of foreign States — Contract to supply film of visit abroad of Head of State — Action against foreign State for default on payment — Attachment of film — Whether foreign State entitled to immunity from attachment — Purpose of film — Acts iure imperii and iure gestionis — The law of Belgium

Sovereign immunity — Foreign State — Contracts for purchase of immovable property by foreign State — Action for declaration of nullity of contract — Whether foreign State entitled to jurisdictional immunity — Sources of principle of jurisdictional immunity under international law — Bustamante Code of Private International Law, Article 333 — Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, 1961, Articles 22 and 31 — The law of Chile

Sovereign immunity — Foreign States — Lease of building to Ministry of Education of foreign State for use as State school — Action for eviction upon expiry of lease — Whether foreign State entitled to jurisdictional immunity — Acts iure imperii and iure gestionis — Waiver — Extent to which insertion of forum clause in lease constitutes waiver — Extent to which appearance before municipal courts constitutes waiver — The law of France

Sovereign immunity — Heads of foreign States — Former King of Egypt — Action for payment of debt contracted prior to abdication — Whether entitled to jurisdictional immunity — The law of France

Sovereign immunity — Public ships — Immunity from attachment of merchant vessel owned by foreign State — Activities iure imperii and iure gestionis — The law of France

Sovereign Immunity — Foreign States — Contracts for construction of buildings to house American officials in France — Dispute between French contractor and United States Foreign Buildings Operation Department — Whether Department entitled to jurisdictional immunity — Acts iure imperii and iure gestionis — The law of France

Sovereign immunity — Foreign States and State-owned corporations — Spanish National Railway Company — Action for personal injury arising from railway accident — Whether entitled to jurisdictional immunity — Acts iure imperii and iure gestionis — Berne International Convention (CIV), 1952, Article 43 — The law of France

Sovereign immunity — Foreign States and State-controlled corporations — Contract of employment — Termination of — Action for wrongful dismissal — Whether foreign company under State control entitled to jurisdictional immunity — Acts iure gestionis and iure imperii — Franco-Algerian Protocol on judicial matters, 1962, Article 17 — The law of France

Sovereign immunity — Foreign States — Enforcement of arbitral award against foreign State — Proceedings for obtaining an exequatur and attachment of assets of foreign State — Whether entitled to jurisdictional immunity or immunity from execution — Waiver — Whether insertion of arbitration clause in original contract constitutes waiver of jurisdictional immunity for proceedings instituted to obtain an exequatur for arbitral award — Whether waiver of jurisdictional immunity implies waiver of immunity from execution — Whether proceedings to obtain an exequatur for award violate a foreign State's immunity from execution — The law of France

Sovereign immunity — Foreign States — Enforcement of arbitral award against foreign State — Proceedings for obtaining an exequatur — Whether foreign State entitled to jurisdictional immunity or immunity from execution — Waiver — Whether insertion of arbitration clause in original agreement implies waiver of jurisdictional immunity — Whether confirmation of order of exequatur prevents subsequent reliance on immunity from execution — The law of France

Sovereign immunity — Property of foreign States — Action far arrears of salary — Judgment in default — Whether foreign State entitled to immunity from execution — Attachment of bank balances — Whether funds whose origin and destination is undetermined are subject to attachment — Whether fact that debt arose from activity iure gestionis is relevant — The law of France