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PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW: I. IMMUNITY AND INTERNATIONAL CRIMES IN ENGLISH LAW

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2008

Colin Warbrick
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Abstract

The texts of two brief judgments by district judges at Bow Street are reproduced below. In each case, an application was made for proceedings against a serving foreign official to answer allegations in England of conduct which constituted crimes against international law which were within the jurisdiction of the English court, even though committed abroad and by non-UK nationals. In each case, the judge decided that the official was protected by the law of State immunity rationae personae against the proceedings and the applications were dismissed.

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International & Comparative Law Quarterly , Volume 53 , Issue 3 , July 2004 , pp. 769 - 774
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Copyright © British Institute of International and Comparative Law 2004

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