Essay On Territorial Jurisdiction

Introduction

Every state has its legitimate authority over its sovereign territory. Moreover when a crime is conduct over its territory, it is a right to exercise the jurisdiction by the State owning the territory. However other basis of principles for exercising the jurisdiction over the geographical territory of a state exists as such nationality jurisdiction where the state may exercise the jurisdiction because the offender is a national of the state. Or protective jurisdiction over cases where it is threatening the state’s security, then the threatened state may commit the jurisdiction. The universal jurisdiction is the principle where any state, regarding any where when the case is a crime by the international community, while the personal passive jurisdiction implies where a state may take the court over a case when the victim is the nationalist of the state. This paper is going to describe the 5 types of jurisdiction by International Law and the cases that arises as a criminal jurisdiction.

1. Territorial Jurisdiction

Territorial Jurisdiction is a right for every national court where it will always have the jurisdiction over offenses that took place in its territory. The jurisdiction include over

For example the clear cut of this case is still debatable. The former dictator of Chile Augusti Pinochet was arrested in London in 1998, by Spanish judge Baltazar Garzon’s demand, on charges of human rights abuses, not on the grounds of universal jurisdiction but rather on the grounds that some of the victims of the abuses committed in Chile were Spanish citizens. Spain then sought his extradition from Britain, again, not on the grounds of universal jurisdiction, but by invoking the law of the European Union regarding extradition; and he was finally released on grounds of health. Argentineans Alfredo Astiz’s sentence is part of this juridical