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Belhaj v Straw: English Court of Appeal rules that state immunity and the act of state doctrine does not prevent claims against the British government for alleged involvement in unlawful rendition
On 30 October 2014, the Court of Appeal in Belhaj v Straw and Others [2014] EWCA Civ 1394 ruled that state immunity and the act of state doctrine did not …
Constitutional rights vs. state immunity: implementation of an ICJ decision on sovereign immunity declared unconstitutional
A recent decision by the Italian Constitutional Court calls into question the applicability of generally accepted principles of sovereign immunity to …
ECHR reaffirms State immunity from civil proceedings for acts of torture in Jones v United Kingdom
In the recent case of Jones and others v United Kingdom, the European Court of Human Rights (the Court) found that the United Kingdom had not breached …
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