Chapter 4: International Law and National Laws

 

 

Exercise on treaty implementation:

 

Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions, Paris, 17 December 1997 [1999] ATS 21

 

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/dfat/treaties/1999/21.html

 

 

Compare implementation of this treaty in different states –

See ‘Update on steps taken by countries to implement the Convention’:

 

http://www.oecd.org/document/24/0,2340,en_2649_201185_1933144_1_1_1_1,00.html

 

Compare also UN Convention against Corruption, New York 2003

UK Treaty Series No.14 (2006)

http://www.fco.gov.uk/Files/kfile/339730_CM6854.pdf

 

Footnote links:

 

15 For examples of reference to UN General Assembly Declaration and other international instruments in England see:

R v Jones and others (House of Lords), [2006] UKHL 16

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200506/ldjudgmt/jd060329/jones-1.htm

 

R v. Immigration Officer at Prague Airport ex parte European Roma Rights Centre (HL) [2004] UKHL 55 9 December 2004

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200405/ldjudgmt/jd041209/roma-1.htm

 

A and others v Secretary of State for the Home Department (No 2) (HL)

[2005] UKHL 71, [2006] 1 All ER 575

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200506/ldjudgmt/jd051208/aand-1.htm

 

Singh v Entry Clearance Officer (New Delhi) (CA) [2004] EWCA Civ 1075

http://www.courtservice.gov.uk/judgmentsfiles/j2748/singh-v-eco.htm

 

22 See now Sosa v Humberto Alvarez-Machain, US Supreme Court decision of 29 June 2004:

 

http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/03-339.ZS.html

 

 

29 Contrast provisions of Camp David Accords:

http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Peace/egypt-israel_treaty.html

 

and the Treaty of Versailles:

 

http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/versailles.html

 

http://www.foundingdocs.gov.au/item.asp?dID=23

 

See also the ‘Roadmap’ for a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

http://www.un.org/media/main/roadmap122002.html

 

 

30 http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/kbpact.htm

For current list of parties see:

http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/65541.pdf

and note Antigua 16 Nov 88 and Dominica 18 July 88, both parties but not by succession

 

57 http://www.fco.gov.uk/Files/kfile/ponsonbyrule,0.pdf

 

 

94 Courts in the UK are paying more attention to the Vienna Convention:

 

R v. Secretary of State for the Home Department (Appellant) ex parte Mullen

[2004] UKHL 18, [2005] 1 A.C. 1

http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/ld200304/ldjudgmt/jd040429/mullen-1.htm

 

 

R v. Immigration Officer at Prague Airport ex parte European Roma Rights Centre [2004] UKHL 55, [2005] 2 A.C. 1

http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/ld200405/ldjudgmt/jd041209/roma.pdf

 

In re B (FC)(2002), Regina v. Special Adjudicator ex parte Hoxha

[2005] UKHL 19, [2005] 1 W.L.R. 1063

http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/ld200405/ldjudgmt/jd050310/hox.pdf

 

 

Chapter 5: States

Characteristics