Lloyd's Law Reports

Professor Robert Merkin KC; Dr Johanna Hjalmarsson

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NML CAPITAL LTD v REPUBLIC OF ARGENTINA

[2009] 1 Lloyd's Rep. 378

QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION (COMMERCIAL COURT)

Before Mr Justice Blair

Enforcement of judgments - Sovereign immunity - Claimant obtaining judgment against Republic of Argentina in New York court - Claimant seeking to enforce judgment in England by common law action - Effect of State Immunity Act 1978 - Whether contractual submission to jurisdiction - Whether claimant permitted to argue new grounds for lack of immunity - State Immunity Act 1978, section 1 - Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982, section 31(1).

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