Indonesian airline ‘flying high’: High Court confirms foreign entity immunity from winding up

Pravin Aathreya and Lucy Charleston of Johnson Winter Slattery report that the High Court of Australia has upheld a New South Wales Court of Appeal decision that foreign state immunity extends to a national airline subject to a winding up proceeding, rejecting the appellant's argument that the object of the exception from immunity and the body corporate subject to the winding up application can be one and the same.

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