Aliens — Refugees — Refugee status — Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, 1951 — Political asylum — United Kingdom Immigration Rules — Interpretation — Well-founded fear of “persecution” — Effect of allegation of injurious action and oppression — The law of England

War — Effects of — On Agency — Letters of Administration.

Diplomatic relations — Immunity — Family of diplomatic agent — Transit through third State — Immunity from criminal jurisdiction — Wife of diplomatic agent travelling separately from her husband — Scope of immunity — Waiver — Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, 1961 — Articles 40(1) and 32 — The law of Belgium

State Territory — Boundaries — Thalweg.

International Law — Relation to Municipal Law — Construction of Statutes — Defence Legislation — Extra-territorial Operation of — Law of India.

Visiting Forces — Jurisdiction over — Offences Committed Abroad — Whether Exercise of Jurisdiction by Home State Contrary to International Law.

Jurisdiction — Over Nationals Abroad — Legislation for Defence Purposes — India — International Law — Relation to Municipal Law — Construction of Statutes.

War and neutrality — War in general — Enforcement of the laws of war — Punishment of war crimes and crimes against humanity — London Charter of International Military Tribunal, 1945, Article 6 (b) and (c) — Crimes against humanity — Definition — Dutch Decree establishing Extraordinary Penal Provisions 1943–71 — Dutch national accused of voluntarily participating in commission of war crimes by German SS in Poland

Jurisdiction — Personal — Over nationals for crimes committed abroad — Whether nationality of accused at time of commission of offences decisive — Statutory limitation of prosecution — Whether applicable — Relevance of possible illegalities in extradition procedure — The principle ne bis in idem

Human rights — Renewed criminal proceedings — Whether barred by ministerial undertaking to desist from prosecution given 24 years earlier — Due process — European Convention on Human Rights, 1950 — Article 6(1) — Right to hearing within a reasonable time “in determination of any criminal charge” — Right to independent and impartial tribunal — Relevance of possibility that judicial decisions might be influenced by Government report — Purpose of punishment — Whether length of time since offence committed relevant in determining appropriate sentence — Advanced age and fragile health of accused — Whether sentence to 10 years' imprisonment violates Article 3 of Convention — The law of the Netherlands

Warfare at Sea — Killing of Survivors of Torpedoed Enemy Merchant Vessel — Defence of Superior Orders — Operational Necessity.

Laws of War — Binding Force of — Plea of Necessity — Operational Necessity in Warfare at Sea — Killing of Survivors of Torpedoed Enemy Merchant-Vessel — War Crimes — Defence of Superior Orders.

Territory — Occupation of Foreign Territory in Time of Peace Pending a Plebiscite — The Law Applicable in the Occupied Territory — Tacna-Arica.

State immunity — State corporation — Independent legal personality — Whether entitled to State immunity — Whether immunity can be invoked by third party acting on behalf of foreign State corporation — Whether property subject to attachment — The law of Switzerland

Relationship of international law and municipal law — Treaties — International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966 — Optional Protocol — Declaration — Sri Lankan Constitution — Sri Lanka acceding to Covenant — Sri Lanka acceding to Optional Protocol and making Declaration — Legal effect — Dualist theory of international law — Constitution of Sri Lanka — Sovereignty — Legislative, executive and judicial powers deriving from Constitution — Constitution limiting powers — Whether acts of President of Sri Lanka consistent with Constitution — Whether binding Republic qua State — Whether having legal effect within Republic — Whether findings of United Nations Human Rights Committee to be given effect by Supreme Court — The law of Sri Lanka

British Dominions — Treaty-Making Power — Canada — Power to Implement Treaties in Matters not Expressly Reserved to the Federation.

Enemy Character of Vessels — How far Determined by the Flag — Absence of Ship’s Papers — Hague Convention No. VI of October 18, 1907 — Days of Grace.

Treaties — Operation in Time of War — Treaty of 1905 on Civil Procedure — Enemy Occupation.

Jurisdiction — Immunities from — Foreign States — Counter-claim against State.

Nationality — Married Women — Loss of Nationality on Marriage to Alien — Dissolution of Marriage by Papal Dispensation

Warfare on Land — Occupation of Enemy Territory — Judicial Functions of the Occupant — Sentence by Military Tribunal — How far res judicata in National Court.

Jurisdiction — Personal — Over nationals in respect of crimes committed abroad — Non-extraditable offence punishable only in State where committed — The law of Switzerland.

State Succession — Private Rights — American Annexation of Hawaii.

Human rights — Freedom of expression — Press freedom — Injunction on distribution of magazine issue — Grounds for injunction — Applicability of international instruments — National security — Whether magazine article promoting war and inciting violence contrary to Act on Public Information and Constitutional Order

Relationship of international and municipal law — Treaties — International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966 — European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, 1950 — Whether applicable — Whether restrictions on freedom of press contrary to international instruments — Whether national security valid ground for injunction — The law of Serbia

Sovereign, immunity — Foreign States and public corporations — Agricultural co-operative — Loan agreement — Action for repayment — Whether co-operative entitled to jurisdictional immunity — Acts iure imperii and iure gestionis — Whether act to be classified according to nature or purpose — The law of Italy