In this episode I cover International Wrongs and Domestic Rights.

1. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

Kiobel v Royal Dutch Petroleum Co
(17 April 2013)
No. 10–1491

Does the US Alien Tort Statute apply to breaches of international law within the territory of a foreign state?

http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/10-1491_l6gn.pdf

2. EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Jones v United Kingdom
(14 January 2014)
App Nos. 34356/06 & 40528/06

Was the immunity from suit of a foreign state, and of its officials, on the basis of state immunity, consistent with the European Convention on Human Rights, Article 6?

http://www.bailii.org/eu/cases/ECHR/2014/32.html

3. QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION OF THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE OF ENGLAND AND WALES

Belhaj v Straw
(20 December 2013)
[2013] EWHC 4111 (QB)

Where the claimants alleged that the UK government had been complicit with foreign states in their illegal abduction and return to Libya, were their claims non-justiciable because they concerned acts of state?

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2013/4111.html

~EVENTS~

Gerald Gordon Seminar on Criminal Law, University of Glasgow (12 June 2014):
http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/law/research/criminallaw/gordonseminar/

Sovereignty, Property and Critical History of International Law
University of Glasgow (13 February 2014):
http://tinyurl.com/nj4xw6o

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julius.komorowski@terrafirmachambers.com

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