consular court

However, the British consular court rejected any compensation for the families of the victims.

He practised in the consular courts and becoming president of the European bar there.

Foreign Nationals of treaty powers were tried by consular courts.

In China consular courts operated up until the 1940s when extraterritoriality for most nations came to an end then.

Article 2 provided for the termination of all Greek consular courts, except for those dealing with current cases.

The British had the widest system of consular courts run by the Foreign Office.

Article 2 stipulated for the abolition of Swedish consular courts throughout Egypt.

The Court for Japan also heard appeals from consular courts in Japan.

Only Consular Courts of the State of the foreigners concerned were competent to try them.

In China and Japan under the unequal treaties many countries established consular courts in cities open to foreign trade.

The other European powers agreed to give up the consular courts they had maintained to protect their nationals from the Tunisian judiciary.

Courts at that time were not entirely national, but rather there were courts for foreigners known as "consular courts".

Law Secretary of the British Consular Court in Kanagawa (1878)

Cases from other consular courts in Shanghai were also published in the North China Herald.

Under these, Europeans in Iran had enjoyed the privilege of being subject to their own consular courts rather than to the Iranian judiciary.

Previously jurisdiction had been exercised by Consular Courts under the African Order in Council of 1889.

In Japan extraterritoriality came to an end on 4 August 1899 and the consular courts closed soon after that after finalising pending cases.

Afterwards, in a maritime tribunal held by the British consular court in Yokohama, P&O was cleared.

In places where consuls had extraterritorial powers consular courts would also be established to handle civil and criminal cases against citizens and subjects of that country.

By October 1894 Jansen was an Associate judge on the United States Consular Court in Shanghai.

His last position before retirement was as Chief Justice of the British Supreme Consular Court in the Ottoman Empire.

British consular courts could be found in Africa, the Ottoman Empire, Egypt, China, Japan and Siam.

In 1907, he was prosecuted in the British Consular Court in Seoul for breach of the peace and given a good behaviour bond of 6 months.

It enabled the Europeans to penetrate Iranian territory, and the consular courts which tried their offenses were often so lenient that a serious crime could go virtually unpunished.

Thus Westerners in Siam (the Chinese had no consul) could only be tried for criminal offences, or sued in civil cases, in their own consular courts.