Marine Steel Ltd v Government of the Marshall Islands - [1981] 2 NZLR 1

Practice and procedure — Leave to serve proceedings out of New Zealand — Plaintiff repaired ship under contract with Government of the Marshall Islands — Work carried out in New Zealand — Plaintiff wished to recover money claimed to be owing for work completed under contract — Whether doctrine of sovereign immunity applies to the Marshall Islands Government — Whether plaintiff should be granted leave to serve proceedings out of New Zealand — Code of Civil Procedure, RR 48, 49 and 51A.