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

In: The international & comparative law quarterly: ICLQ, Band 53, Heft 3, S. 769-774

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.