The WLR Daily case summaries
[2017] WLR (D) 51
Supreme Court
Belhaj v Straw and others (United Nations Special Rapporteur for Torture and others intervening)
Rahmatullah v Secretary of State for the Home Department (No 2) (United Nations Special Rapporteur for Torture and others intervening)
[2017] UKSC 3
2015 Nov 9, 10,11,12; 2017 Jan 17
Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury PSC, Baroness Hale of Richmond DPSC, Lord Mance, Lord Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony, Lord Wilson, Lord Sumption, Lord Hughes JJSC
Conflict of laws— Sovereign immunity— Act of state— Claims for damages for unlawful detention and mistreatment in various foreign states and on board United States aircraft— Claimants 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 English court lacking jurisdiction to hear claim— Whether claim non-justiciable— Whether determination of applicable law appropriate