Foreign Sovereign Immunity

Foreign sovereign immunity in Maritime Law

Note: There is more information on maritime/admiralty law here.

See the State Immunity Act 1978 (U.K. 1978 c. 33); Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (28 U.S. Code Appx. 1330, 1332a, 1391(f), 1441(d), 1601-1611 (1976)); State Immunity Act (R.S.C. 1985 c. S-18). All these statutes are published in Benedict on Admiralty, vol. 6A. See generally Chap. 31 in Tetley, M.L.C., 2 Ed., 1998 at pp. 1161-1186.

Foreign sovereign immunity in Admiralty Law

For information on foreign sovereign immunity in this context, see the entry on foreign sovereign immunity in the maritime law encyclopedia.