Contracts with a foreign element would not normally be mentioned in Acts of Parliament, which are deliberately constructed to avoid giving the law extraterritorial effect.

The appellant contended that "any law in Singapore which seeks to have extraterritorial effect is, by that virtue of that alone, unconstitutional".

Justice Thomas replied in his majority opinion that neither the government's use of the statute nor the court's interpretation of it gave it an extraterritorial effect.

"This would have a huge extraterritorial effect here and in Asia, with Europe imposing its rules on everyone else."

If the local court is actually giving extraterritorial effect to a foreign law, it is less than sovereign and so acting in a way that is potentially unconstitutional.

Pass certain laws having extraterritorial effect (in accordance with the similar practices of other states).

Well, in this situation, what is the significance of suspending the application of the extraterritorial effects of the Helms-Burton Act on Europeans?

Nor have we abandoned or contravened the principle that there should be no extraterritorial effect.

The rapporteur measures with extraterritorial effect covering human and workers' rights, the environment and the prevention of corruption.

The European Union does not support such measures with extraterritorial effect.