2.
Per Atkin L.J. –
“International Law as such can confer no
rights cognisable in the municipal courts. It
is only in so far as the rules of International
Law are recognised as included in the rules
of municipal law that they are allowed in
municipal courts to give rise to rights and
obligations.”
3. CHUNG CHI CHEUNG –
v. – THE KING
Per Lord
Atkin:
“…international law has no validity
save in so far as its principles are
accepted and adopted by our own
domestic law…The Courts
acknowledge the existence of a
body of rules which nations accept
amongst themselves. On any
judicial issue…they will treat it as
incorporated into the domestic
law, so far as it is not inconsistent
with rules enacted by statutes or
finally declared by their tribunals.”
