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UK GOVERNMENT CANNOT HIDE FROM COMPLICITY IN HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 July 2017

Andrew Sanger
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IN the joined appeals of Belhaj v Straw and Rahmatullah (No 1) v Ministry of Defence [2017] UKSC 3, the UK Supreme Court held that state immunity and the foreign act of state doctrine did not prevent claims against the British Government alleging complicity in human rights abuses and breaches of peremptory norms of international law.

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The Cambridge Law Journal , Volume 76 , Issue 2 , July 2017 , pp. 223 - 227
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Copyright © Cambridge Law Journal and Contributors 2017 

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