Judicial Immunity in UK Law
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Barratt v Ansell (t/a as Woolf Seddon); Arthur JS Hall & Company v Simons
... ... In response the solicitors relied on the immunity of advocates from suits in negligence. In all three cases judges at first ... Graef, Judicial Activism in Civil Proceedings. A comparison between English and German ... ...
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R v Bow Street Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate, ex parte Pinochet Ugarte (No. 3)
... ... of this case–is a former head of state entitled to sovereign immunity from arrest or prosecution in the U.K. for acts of torture–applies to ... The judicial authorities in Spain sought to extradite him in order to stand trial in ... ...
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Rondel v Worsley
... ... On the one hand, if the existing rule of immunity continues there will be cases, rare though they may be, where a client who ... lies in respect of evidence given by witnesses in the course of judicial proceedings, however false or malcious it may be, though naturally ... ...
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NML Capital Ltd v Republic of Argentina
... ... Court of Appeal, which held that Argentina is protected by state immunity. The question raised by this appeal is whether that finding was correct ... [1958] AC 379 , 422 Lord Denning expressed, obiter, the view that judicial immunity should not apply to commercial transactions, but the other ... ...
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Darker and Others v Chief Constable of the West Midlands Police
... ... comes to court to give evidence he has the benefit of an absolute immunity. This immunity, which is regarded as necessary in the interests of the ... judicial proceedings by relieving persons who take part in the judicial process ... ...
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Belhaj and another v Straw and Others; Rahmatullah v Ministry of Defence and another (No 2)
... ... 6 IV State immunity 9 ... act of state (which I describe as a rule of non-justiciability or judicial abstention). What Lord Sumption does in para 228 is enlarge the first of ... ...
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Jones v Kaney
... ... public interest all those directly taking part are given civil immunity for their participation … Thus the court, judge and jury, and the ... "is designed to encourage freedom of speech and communication in judicial proceedings by relieving persons who take part in the judicial process ... ...
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Arenson v Arenson
... ... (p.370H), which, though not precluding a duty from arising, gives immunity from the consequences of its breach (p.368H–369B). Sir Seymour Karminski ... which have given rise to this immunity of persons acting in a judicial capacity, I do not think that they have anything like the same force when ... ...
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Sutcliffe v Thackrah
... ... a judge is not liable in damages for negligence in performing his judicial duties. The next step is that those employed to perform duties of a ... think that it has been given negligently, and I think that the immunity of arbitrators from liability for negligence must be based on the ... ...
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Jones v Ministry of the Interior of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and another (Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs and another intervening); Mitchell v Al-Dali;
... ... state will not, save in certain specified instances, assert its judicial authority over another. The second principle, of more recent vintage but ... and to dismiss Mr Jones's claim on the ground of state immunity under the State Immunity Act 1978. On that ground, on 30 July 2003, Master ... ...
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