Judges from tiny jurisdictions ruling over larger countries?
A reform in 2001 called Brussels II tried to stop forum shopping, in which each party sought the most favourable jurisdiction, by ruling that the first court to be approached decides the divorce.
Prosin says that even if NhRP loses the case, it will use the habeas corpus ruling to sway judges in other jurisdictions.
"When our own state agency says they don't have jurisdiction," Ms. Hammond said, "and a statute requires that a pipeline be subject to the agency's jurisdiction, the court should be ruling in favor of the citizen and denying the corporation's request".
The supreme court rejected the argument, ruling on Wednesday that neither article 9 nor the exclusive jurisdiction of the House of Commons posed any bar to the jurisdiction of the crown court to try the former MPs.
In its ruling the human-rights division said that it had no jurisdiction over the private club.
The Appellate Division decided that the hedge funds lacked jurisdiction to bring a lawsuit in a New York State court, ruling that there was an inadequate connection between New York and the facts of the case.
Had it agreed with the American position that it lacked jurisdiction, the court would have risked its own integrity by ruling against the weight of international law.
Eventually a panel of Supreme Court judges, including Lord Neuberger and Lady Hale, upheld the appeal by Mr Grayling, ruling that the Barclays' earlier success was invalid as there was no jurisdiction to review the matter.
The question is what the penalty will be and which ruling body -- the arbitration panel or the international jury -- has the jurisdiction to impose it.
