State Immunity in UK Law
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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 ... ...
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R v Bow Street Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate, ex parte Pinochet Ugarte (No. 3)
... ... in Chile) during the period when Senator Pinochet was head of state in Chile. The interaction between the various legal issues which arise is ... 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 ... ...
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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;
... ... The Kingdom then applied to set aside service of the proceedings 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 Whitaker set aside service of the proceedings and refused permission to ... ...
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Benkharbouche v Embassy of the Republic of Sudan (Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Others intervening)
... ... Introduction ... 1 The question at issue on this appeal is whether two provisions of the State Immunity Act 1978 are consistent with the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Union Charter of Fundamental Rights. The two provisions are ... ...
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NML Capital Ltd v Republic of Argentina
... ... by the Court of Appeal, which held that Argentina is protected by state immunity. The question raised by this appeal is whether that finding was ... ...
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Playa Larga (Owners of cargo lately laden on board) v I Congreso del Partido (Owners); Marble Islands (Owners of cargo lately laden on board) v I Congreso del Partido (Owners); I Congreso del Partido
... ... of importance as to the scope of the "restrictive" theory of state immunity as it existed in the law of this country in 1973�75 when the ... ...
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Kuwait Airways Corporation v Iraqi Airways Company (Nos 4 & 5)
... ... all its property worldwide, including the ten aircraft, to the state-owned Iraqi Airways Co (IAC). This resolution, resolution 369, came into ... The House also decided that IAC could not claim state immunity regarding the acts of which KAC was complaining, in so far as they were ... ...
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Holland v Lampen-Wolfe
... ... 1 This case is concerned with the immunity of a foreign state from the jurisdiction of the English courts. The ... ...
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Maclaine Watson & Company Ltd v International Tin Council
... ... up jurisdiction of the English court; and, secondly, that the immunity from "suit and legal process" conferred on the ITC by paragraph 6(1) of ... a members' social club was not; on à ground which, if he would not state exhaustively what associations were included, cannot have been intended to ... ...
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Trendtex v Central Bank of Nigeria
... ... on the letter of credit: because they are entitled to sovereign immunity The plaintiffs dispute this on the ground that this is an ordinary ... It is one of the rules of International Law that a sovereign state should not be impleaded in the courts of another sovereign state against ... ...
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