Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 2021
State responsibility — For wrongs unconnected with contractual obligations — Acts and omissions of State organs — Executive inaction — Damage caused in territory of dependent State — Executive authority in dependent State exercised by protecting State — Lack of diligence of French police in Tunisia before establishment of independent sovereign State of Tunisia — Whether France or Tunisia liable for damage caused.
Dependent States — Status of Tunisia before establishment of independent sovereign State of Tunisia — Exercise of executive power by French authorities — Claim for damages for alleged lack of diligence of French authorities — Whether France or Tunisia liable.