Wokuri v Kassam

Subject Matter

CONFLICT OF LAWS — Sovereign immunity — Diplomatic immunity — Employment — Employee working as domestic servant for employer abroad and continuing same work in London when employer becoming diplomat at high commission — Employee seeking payment of salary owing and alleging breach of employment rights when employer leaving London mission — Employer claiming immunity as former diplomat — Whether employee’s duties as domestic servant relating to functions of employer as member of diplomatic mission — Whether jurisdiction to hear claim — Diplomatic Privileges Act 1964, Sch 1, art 39(2)

[2013] Ch 80; [2012] 3 WLR 427; [2012] ICR 1283