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Daniel Franchini

Belhaj and Boudchar v Straw and ors, Appeal judgment, [2017] UKSC 3, [2017] AC 964, [2017] 2 WLR 456, [2017] 3 All ER 337, [2017] HRLR 4, [2017] 1 WLUK 198, ILDC 2974 (UK 2017), 17th January 2017, United Kingdom; Supreme Court [UKSC]

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 20 September 2024

Whether the law of state immunity and the act of state doctrine prevented a state’s courts from hearing claims concerning the that state’s complicity in the rendition and unlawful detention of individuals carried out by foreign states abroad.

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