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State Immunity in National and International Law: Three Recent Cases Before the European Court of Human Rights

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2005

Abstract

The issue of state immunity in the case of human rights violations has been controversial in the last decade, partly due to the absence of international judicial pronouncements. The bringing of the three cases previously litigated in the United Kingdom and Ireland before the European Court of Human Rights was supposed to reduce this uncertainty. However, decisions of the Court seem to have failed to meet these expectations. The Court has failed to properly examine whether the sources of international law support the scope of state immunity as portrayed in the decisions. Furthermore, the decision on Al-Adsani is deficient in that it fails to respect the difference between sovereign and non-sovereign acts, and the effects of peremptory norms with regard to state immunity.

Type
CURRENT LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS
Copyright
© 2002 Kluwer Law International

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