Chapter 9: Diplomatic Law and State Immunity

*Pages 383–4

On immunity of States, Heads of States and officials in respect of torture see:

Jones v. Ministry of the Interior of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

[2005] Q.B. 699

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2004/1394.html

and for HL [2006] UKHL 26 (14 June 2006), see

http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKHL/2006/26.html

*Pages 384 – 387

The Court of Appeal in the UK gave further guidance on the concept of non-justiciability in holding that issues over a treaty to which the United Kingdom was not a party were justiciable in the courts in the UK

Occidental Exploration & Production Company v Republic of Ecuador

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2005/1116.html

See also Second Phase judgment of 3 March 2006 (Commercial Court):

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Comm/2006/345.html

and

Ecuador v Occidental Exploration & Production Co [2007] EWCA Civ 656

(04 July 2007)
http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2007/656.html

Footnote links:

58 http://www.afsa.org/fsj/May99/Corps.cfm

75 http://conventions.coe.int/

99 http://travel.state.gov/law/info/judicial/judicial_693.html

http://anthonydamato.law.northwestern.edu/Adobefiles/A88a-alien.pdf

101 http://www.un.org/law/jurisdictionalimmunities/

*The Foreign and Commonwealth Office gives links to the text and other related material on the UN Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property, opened for signature New York 17 January 2005

http://www.fco.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1017170970560

and at: http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/r59.htm