{{Short description|Case of the Permanent Court of International Justice}} The '''Oscar Chinn case''' (''Britain v. Belgium''). [1934], P.C.I.J. (Ser. A/B) No. 63 was a case of the Permanent Court of International Justice.<ref>[http://untreaty.un.org/cod/PCIJsummaries/index.html Oscar Chinn Case] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130907215250/http://untreaty.un.org/cod/PCIJsummaries/index.html |date=2013-09-07 }}, UN Summaries of Judgements.</ref>
The Belgian government granted significant subsidies to a Belgian company, UNATRA, that offered transportation services in the Belgian Congo. Mr. Chinn, a British subject who operated a fluvial transport company on the Congo River could not compete (during the Great Depression) with the subsidised UNATRA's nominal prices and Britain brought a claim against the Belgian government as a matter of diplomatic protection.<ref>T. Olawale Elias, The International Court of Justice And Some Contemporary Problems. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 1983 [https://books.google.com/books?id=BUiaXB4aJq8C&dq=oscar+chinn+case+summary&pg=PA306 Page 306]</ref><ref>Britain v. Belgium [http://www.worldcourts.com/pcij/eng/decisions/1934.12.12_oscar_chinn.htm 1934 Judgment] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111184048/http://www.worldcourts.com/pcij/eng/decisions/1934.12.12_oscar_chinn.htm |date=2013-11-11 }} at World Court.com</ref>
The Court decided, based on the Convention of Saint-Germain 1919 and general principles of international law, that the Belgian Government did not violate any international legal obligations to the United Kingdom.<ref>Britain v. Belgium [http://www.worldcourts.com/pcij/eng/decisions/1934.12.12_oscar_chinn.htm 1934 Judgment paragraph 105] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111184048/http://www.worldcourts.com/pcij/eng/decisions/1934.12.12_oscar_chinn.htm |date=2013-11-11 }} at World Court.com</ref>
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Category:1937 in case law Category:1937 in international relations Category:Belgium–United Kingdom relations Oscar Chinn Case