The Industrial Cases Reports
[2014] ICR 169
Employment Appeal Tribunal
Benkharbouche
v
Embassy of the Republic of Sudan
UKEAT/401/12
Janah
v
Libya
UKEAT/20/13
2013 April 30;
Oct 4
Langstaff J (President)
Conflict of laws— Sovereign immunity— Employment— Domestic worker at London embassy— Claims of unfair dismissal and breach of working time provisions— Embassy claiming state immunity— Worker excluded from exception for employees— Whether denial of access to enforcement of claims breach of right to fair trial— Whether statute to be disapplied—
State Immunity Act 1978 (c 33), ss 4(2), 16
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Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), s 3, Sch 1, art 6
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Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union 2004, art 47