Week 11 State Jurisdiction Part 1

Lecture 8

State’s Jurisdiction

  1. What is Jurisdiction?
  2. What is state Jurisdiction?

‘Legal Competence’ which a state enjoys over a territory which belongs to it.

‘Legal competence’ includes legislative, executive and judicial competence.

  1. Types of Jurisdiction
  1. State’s Criminal Jurisdiction
  2. State’s Civil Jurisdiction

 

State’s Criminal Jurisdiction

 

 
 

 

Territorial Criminal Jurisdiction                                  Extra-territorial Criminal Jurisdiction

Territorial Principle                                                                 Nationality Principle

Passive Nationality                                                                 Protective Principle

Exception: Special Immunity                                                  Universality Principle

 

State’s Civil Jurisdiction

 

 
 

 

Territorial Civil Jurisdiction                                        Extra Territorial Civil Jurisdiction

“A state has absolute authority to

exercise civil jurisdiction on its

territory. Citizens and Aliens both

come under the territorial jurisdiction”.

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