Wills & Trusts Law Reports | December 2016 #165The underlying claim concerned monies deposited in a new bank account with the National Westminster Bank (the bank) in the name of Mr Rahimtoola, the High Commissioner for Pakistan in London between 16 and 20 September 1948 (the Fund). The monies deposited had belonged to the state of Hyderabad/the 7th Nizam (Hyderabad’s absolute monarch at the time). The state of Hyderabad had been annexed to India between 13 and 18 September 2016. The underlying claim had been brought by Pakistan against the bank. A number of other defendants claiming an interest in the fund had been joined. Consequent...
Philip Mead outlines how the court decided which country’s law was applicable to an accident overseas ‘The uncertainty has arisen both because of the peculiar nature of the Ministry of Defence as a potential liable defendant and in relation to the applicability of the conflicts of laws rules in relation to tort.’ In Rai v …
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