Multiple choice

In Gur Corporation's case the issue before an English Court was whether the Government of Ciskei could sue as claimant in its own name. The court of Appeal answered this question in the affirmative by applying:

  1. The foreign corporation Act

  2. Foreign Relations Act

  3. Doctrine of acts of a delegated sovereign

  4. Estrada doctrine
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Explanation

The Gur Corporation case (1988) involved whether the Ciskei government (a bantustan/trust territory) had capacity to sue in English courts. The Court of Appeal held it could, applying the Foreign Corporations Act which allows foreign states to sue if they would have immunity in their own courts. This is an obscure conflict of laws/private international law case.

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