The Weekly Law Reports
[2023] 2 WLR 549
Queen’s Bench Division
Al-Masarir
v
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
[2022] EWHC 2199 (QB)
2021 June 15, 16; 2022 Aug 19
Julian Knowles J
International law— State immunity— Act of state— Claim against defendant state in respect of psychiatric and physical injury caused by infection of claimant’s mobile phone with surveillance software and assault— Whether state having immunity from suit in respect of claim— Whether claimant able to rely on exception for proceedings in respect of personal injury caused by act or omission in United Kingdom— Whether exception applying to acts of sovereign or governmental nature— Whether necessary that whole of tort committed in United Kingdom—
State Immunity Act 1978 (c 33), ss 1(1), 5