Civil wrongs committed on ships in the high seas are committed in the country of the ship\u2019s flag, the state to which it is registered. Where a civil wrong is committed on the seas and is confined to one ship, the law of the flag controls the position.<\/p>\n
Collisions between ships within Irish territorial waters are subject to Irish laws.\u00a0 Where they are not confined to one ship and take place in foreign waters, the law of the ship\\’s flag is irrelevant.<\/p>\n\n
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Overview Conflicts of law issues may arise where a civil wrong is committed in one jurisdiction, but injury results in another.\u00a0 There is a wide range of civil wrongs ranging from nuisance, defamation and trespass, where liability may be strict, to negligence and to torts requiring intent or recklessness such as fraudulent misrepresentation. Conflict issues […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,154],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10121"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32513,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10121\/revisions\/32513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}