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Basfar v Wong (Diplomatic Immunity): EAT 31 Jan 2020

DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY The Claimant was employed by the Respondent diplomat to work as a domestic servant at his diplomatic residence in the UK, having previously been employed by him in his diplomatic household in Saudi Arabia. By her ET1 form she contended that she was a victim of international trafficking by the Respondent and had … Continue reading Basfar v Wong (Diplomatic Immunity): EAT 31 Jan 2020

Re AG (A Child): CA 18 Nov 2022

Whether certain provisions of the Diplomatic Privileges Act 1964 (DPA) and the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations 1961 (VCDR) are incompatible with article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR) which provides that ‘[n]o one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment’ (article 3). … Continue reading Re AG (A Child): CA 18 Nov 2022

Fernando v Sathananthan: Admn 19 Mar 2021

Whether the actions of the appellant were carried out in ‘the exercise of his functions’ as a member of the Sri Lankan mission in London, and, accordingly, whether he has continuing functional immunity from prosecution, after departure from the United Kingdom, by virtue of article 39(2) of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations Judges: ir … Continue reading Fernando v Sathananthan: Admn 19 Mar 2021

Reyes v Al-Malki and Another: SC 18 Oct 2017

The claimant alleged that she had been discrimated against in her work for the appellant, a member of the diplomatic staff at the Saudi Embassy in London. She now appealed against a decision that the respondent had diplomatic immunity. Held: The appeal was allowed: ‘the question whether the exception in article 31(1)(c) would have applied … Continue reading Reyes v Al-Malki and Another: SC 18 Oct 2017

Kuwait Investment Office v Hard: EAT 30 Mar 2022

(Jurisdictional Points, Practice and Procedure) In advance of a preliminary hearing to determine whether the Appellant benefited from state immunity under the State Immunity Act 1978, the First Respondent and the former Second Respondent (whose claim has since been withdrawn) sought an order for specific disclosure, following the standard disclosure previously given by the Appellant. … Continue reading Kuwait Investment Office v Hard: EAT 30 Mar 2022

Bancoult, Regina (on The Application of) (No 3) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: SC 8 Feb 2018

Diplomatic Protection Lost to Public Domain The claimant challenged the use of a Marine Protected Area Order to exclude the Chagossians from their homelands on their British Indian Overseas Territory. They had sought to have admitted and used in cross examination of witnesses leaked diplomatic material which they said would show that the decision to … Continue reading Bancoult, Regina (on The Application of) (No 3) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: SC 8 Feb 2018

Shearson Lehman Brothers Inc v Maclaine Watson and Co Ltd and International Tin Council (Intervener) (No. 2): HL 1988

Article 7(1) of the International Tin Council (Immunities and Privileges) Order 1972 provided that the ITC ‘shall have the like inviolability of official archives as in accordance with the 1961 Convention Articles is accorded in respect of the official archives of a diplomatic mission’. In the litigation which arose out of its insolvent collapse, the … Continue reading Shearson Lehman Brothers Inc v Maclaine Watson and Co Ltd and International Tin Council (Intervener) (No. 2): HL 1988

Reyes and Another v Al-Malki and Another: CA 5 Feb 2015

The claimants wished to make employment law claims alleging, inter alia, that they had suffered racial discrimination and harassment, and had been paid less than the national minimum wage aganst the respondents. They had been assessed as having been subject to human trafficking. They appealed against dismissal of their claims under section 31 the 1964 … Continue reading Reyes and Another v Al-Malki and Another: CA 5 Feb 2015

Bancoult, Regina (on The Application of) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Admn 11 Jun 2013

The claimant, displaced from the Chagos Archipelago, challenged a decision by the respondent to create a no-take Marine Protected Area arround the island which would make life there impossible if he and others returned. The respondent renewed his objection to the use of leaked materials, saying that this would be a breach of the Official … Continue reading Bancoult, Regina (on The Application of) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Admn 11 Jun 2013

El-Masri v The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: ECHR 13 Dec 2012

(Grand Chamber) The applicant, a German national of Lebanese origin, alleged that he had been subjected to a secret rendition operation, namely that agents of the respondent State had arrested him, held him incommunicado, questioned and ill-treated him, and handed him over at Skopje Airport to CIA agents who had transferred him, on a special … Continue reading El-Masri v The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: ECHR 13 Dec 2012