State Immunity

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The fact that foreign States are normally entitled to immunity from enforcement before national jurisdictions pursuant to customary international law, has always been the stumbling block in the…

James Crawford described the principle of state immunity as "…a rule of international law that facilitates the performance of public functions by the state and its representatives by preventing them…

An arbitration can be severely disrupted by a party who refuses to comply with an order or direction of its tribunal. In such circumstances, a peremptory order may be used to force the non-compliant…