State Immunity in UK Law
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Denying Foreign State Immunity on the Grounds of the Unavailability of Alternative Means
Granting immunity from suit to a foreign state or an international organisation, deprives the plaintiff of access to court and appears incompatible with the rule of law. Since the European Court of...
- Acts of State, State Immunity, and Judicial Review in the United States
- The State Immunity Act 1978
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The Commercial Exceptions to Foreign State Immunity
The Foreign States Immunities Act 1985 (Cth) provides that foreign states are immune to the jurisdiction of Australian courts, and that their property is immune from execution. Those immunities are...
- Prohibiting the Conscription of State Officers for Commonwealth Purposes: An American Future for the State Immunity Doctrine?
- Xiaodong Yang, STATE IMMUNITY IN INTERNATIONAL LAW Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (www.cambridge.org), Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law, 2012. clxxii + 761 pp. ISBN 9780521844017. £95.
- Universal Jurisdiction Fault Lines and the Immunity of State Officials: A Salutary Warning Before Perdition
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Reasonably Unreasonable: American Use of Force Jurisprudence and Police Impunity
This paper tracks Use of Force jurisprudence from the seminal cases of Graham v. Connor and Tennessee v. Garner to our contemporary moment. I am interested here in assessing the evolving meaning of...... ... , especially as itrelates to legal mechanisms such as qualified immunity which enable agents of thestate to utilize excessive force with impunity ... the contemporary moment of reckoning with the realities of state-sanctionedanti-black violence, something from which a theor y of ... ...
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Reasonably Unreasonable: American Use of Force Jurisprudence and Police Impunity
This paper tracks Use of Force jurisprudence from the seminal cases of Graham v. Connor and Tennessee v. Garner to our contemporary moment. I am interested here in assessing the evolving meaning of...... ... time, especially as itrelates to legal mechanisms such as qualied immunity which enable agents of thestate to utilize excessive force with impunity ... the contemporary moment of reckoning with the realities of state-sanctionedanti-black violence, something from which a theor y of ... ...
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Ships, sovereign immunity and the subtleties of the Brussels I regulation: Case C-641/18 LG and others v. Rina SpA, Ente Registro Italiano Navale: Ships, sovereign immunity and the subtleties of Brussels I: Rina
More than 1000 passengers on a Panamanian-registered ferry drowned in the Red Sea. Some survivors and relatives of some of the victims sued the classification and certification ship society which h...... ... The defendants claimed sovereign immunity as they were actingon behalf of Panama (that is, the flag state). The CJEU ruled that, generally, Article 1(1) of theRegulation means that an action for damages, brought against private-law corporations engaged ... ...
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