Traduction de «Loi sur la responsabilité de l'État » (Français → Anglais) :

Our law governing the liability of foreign states is predicated on the assumption that states should and generally do respect each other's sovereignty and, accordingly, should be afforded certain protections, including immunity from lawsuits as set out in the State Immunity Act.

His Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of Justice, pursuant to section 34Footnote of the Crown Liability and Proceedings ActFootnote , is pleased hereby to revoke the Crown Liability (Provincial Court) Regulations, C.R.C., c. 447, and to make the annexed Regulations prescribing the rules of practice and procedure in respect of proceedings taken in provincial courts under Part II of the Crown Liability and Proceedings Act, in substitution therefor, effective on the day on which An Act to amend the Federal Court Act, the Crown Liability Act, the Supreme Court Act and other Acts in consequence thereof, being chapter 8 of the Statutes of Canada, ...[+++] 1990, comes into force.

In the present case, the Commission claims that the Italian statute on compensation for damage caused in the exercise of judicial functions and the civil liability of judges is incompatible with the case-law of the Court of Justice concerning the liability of Member States for an infringement of EU law by one of their courts adjudicating at last instance.

where the policy holder of a contract falling under this paragraph pursues a commercial or industrial activity or a liberal profession and the insurance contract covers two or more risks which relate to those activities and are situated in different Member States, the law of any of the Member States concerned or the law of the country of habitual residence of the policy holder.

The proper functioning of the internal market creates a need, in order to improve the predictability of the outcome of litigation, certainty as to the law applicable and the free movement of judgments, for the conflict-of-law rules in the Member States to designate the same national law irrespective of the country of the court in which an action is brought.

Our law governing the liability of foreign states is predicated on the assumption that states should, and generally do, respect each other's sovereignty and, accordingly, should be afforded certain protections, including immunity from lawsuits as set out in the State Immunity Act, which I think has also been distributed.