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[2014] WLR (D) 459
CONFLICT OF LAWS— Sovereign immunity— Act of state— Claim for damages for unlawful detention and mistreatment in four foreign states alleging participation of members of United Kingdom executive, intelligence services and government departments— — Whether doctrines of state immunity and act of state operating as bar to claim— — Whether claim falling within public policy limitation on doctrine— — Whether English court lacking jurisdiction to hear claim— — Whether claim non-justiciable