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[2022] WLR(D) 370
Queen’s Bench Division
Al-Masarir v Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
[2022] EWHC 2199 (QB)
2022 June 15, 16; Aug 19
Knowles J
International law— State immunity— Act of state— Claimant bringing claim for personal injury against defendant state— Claim alleging psychiatric injury from learning of installation of surveillance software on mobile phones and physical injury from assault— Whether state entitled to immunity from suit in respect of claim— Whether claimant able to rely on exception from immunity for personal injury caused by act or omission in UK— Whether exception applying to acts of sovereign or governmental nature— Whether necessary that whole of tort committed in UK—
State Immunity Act 1978 (c 33), ss 1(1), 5