Moti v The Queen

JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
JudgeFrench CJ,Gummow,Hayne,Crennan,Kiefel,Bell JJ.,Heydon J.
Judgment Date07 December 2011
Neutral Citation2011-1207 HCA A,[2011] HCA 50
CourtHigh Court
Docket NumberB19/2011
Date07 December 2011
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37 cases
  • Nevsun Resources Ltd v Araya,
    • Canada
    • Supreme Court (Canada)
    • 28 February 2020
    ...has been described as “a common law principle of uncertain application” (para. 51 (AustLII)). 43. Similarly, in Moti v. The Queen, [2011] HCA 50, the court rejected the contention that the act of state doctrine jurisprudence established “a general and universally applicable rule that Austra......
  • Araya v. Nevsun Resources Ltd, 2017 BCCA 401
    • Canada
    • Court of Appeal (British Columbia)
    • 21 November 2017
    ...of another, but expressly excepted cases where the question arises merely incidentally. Similar reasoning appears in Moti v. The Queen [2011] HCA 50, where the High Court approved a statement to the effect that courts are:… free to consider and pronounce an opinion upon the exercise of sove......
  • Nevsun Resources Ltd. v. Araya, 2020 SCC 5
    • Canada
    • Supreme Court (Canada)
    • 28 February 2020
    ...Q.B. 458; Oppenheimer v. Cattermole, [1976] A.C. 249; Buttes Gas and Oil Co. v. Hammer (No. 3), [1982] A.C. 888; Moti v. The Queen, [2011] HCA 50; Laane and Baltser v. Estonian State Cargo & Passenger s.s. Line, [1949] S.C.R. 530; Hunt v. T&N plc, [1993] 4 S.C.R. 289; R. v. Hape, 20......
  • Belhaj and another v Straw and Others; Rahmatullah v Ministry of Defence and another (No 2)
    • United Kingdom
    • Supreme Court
    • 17 January 2017
    ...and Zimbabwean authorities which involved breaching Zimbabwean extradition law. The Australian High Court decision in Moti v The Queen [2011] HCA 50, 245 CLR 456, discussed in para 82 below, has adopted the same approach after expressly considering and rejecting a Crown submission that fore......
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2 books & journal articles
  • International Comity and the Construction of the Charter's Limits: Hape Revisited.
    • Canada
    • Queen's Law Journal Vol. 45 No. 1, September 2019
    • 22 September 2019
    ...in Bradley, Handbook, supra note 6, 501 at 514. (221.) See e.g. Habib v Commonwealth of Australia, [2010] FCAFC 12; Moti v The Queen, [2011] HCA 50; Belhaj v Straw, [2017] UKSC 3. See generally Oonagh E Fitzgerald, "The Globalized Rule of Law and National Security: An Ongoing Quest for Cohe......
  • Abuse of Process: Time for Change?
    • United Kingdom
    • Dundee Student Law Review No. II, January 2015
    • 1 January 2015
    ...of judicial decision making as a branch of the administration of justice. In a case such as the present one, it is that concern that 15[2011] HCA 50, [2012] 4 LRC 235. 16Ibid [259]. 8 Dundee Student Law Review, Vol. II, No. 2 compels a bar against relitigation, more than any sense of unfair......

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