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NLJ this week: Diplomatic immunity, trafficking & modern slavery

10 March 2023
Issue: 8016 / Categories: Legal News , Employment , Human rights
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The Supreme Court case of Basfar v Wong on diplomatic immunity comes under the scrutiny of Joseph Dyke and James McGlaughlin, of McNair International, in this week’s NLJ

The case concerned claims brought against a member of Saudi Arabia’s diplomatic staff and centred on whether the circumstances fell into the ‘commercial activity’ exception to diplomatic immunity.

The claimant was given an employment contract to work in the defendant’s household but alleged she was treated so poorly she was eventually forced to escape. The Supreme Court held the ‘commercial activity’ exception applied which meant the defendant lost their immunity.

Dyke and McGlaughlin respectfully argue that the majority decision represents ‘a dilution of diplomatic immunity in the English jurisdiction. Overall, the minority’s reasoning is preferable as more consistent with the English courts’ previous approach to diplomatic immunity principles’. 

Read the full article here.

Issue: 8016 / Categories: Legal News , Employment , Human rights
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