Index card Al-Masarir v Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Al-Masarir v Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Hearings

England & Wales

19 Aug 2022 [2022] EWHC 2199 (QB); [2023] QB 475; [2023] 2 WLR 549; [2022] WLR(D) 370, QBD (Julian Knowles J)

Subject Matter

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

[2022] EWHC 2199 (QB); [2023] QB 475; [2023] 2 WLR 549; [2022] WLR(D) 370, QBD

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