The Weekly Law Reports
[2025] 2 WLR 467
Court of Appeal
Shehabi and another v Kingdom of Bahrain
[2024] EWCA Civ 1158
2024 July 29, 30; Oct 4
Lady Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill CJ, Males, Warby LJJ
International law— State immunity— Statutory exception— Claim that agents of foreign state while located abroad installing spyware on claimants’ computers in United Kingdom causing psychiatric injury to claimants— Foreign state asserting state immunity— Whether claim subject to exception for proceedings in respect of “personal injury” caused by “act … in the United Kingdom”—
State Immunity Act 1978 (c 33), ss 1, 5