The Weekly Law Reports
[2012] 3 WLR 427
Chancery Division
Wokuri
v
Kassam
[2012] EWHC 105 (Ch)
2012 Jan 17;
30
Newey J
Conflict of laws— Sovereign immunity— Diplomatic immunity— Employment— Employee working as domestic servant for employer abroad and continuing same work in London when employer becoming diplomat at high commission— Employee seeking payment of salary owing and alleging breach of employment rights when employer leaving London mission— Employer claiming immunity as former diplomat— Whether employee’s duties as domestic servant relating to functions of employer as member of diplomatic mission— Whether jurisdiction to hear claim—
Diplomatic Privileges Act 1964 (c 81), Sch 1, art 39(2)