The Supreme Court has handed a landmark judgment upholding the decision of the Court of Appeal reported at [2015] ICR 793; [2015] EWCA Civ 33.
The judgment considers the issue of whether two provisions of the State Immunity Act 1978 are consistent with the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Union Charter of fundamental rights. The two provisions are section 4 (2) (b) and section 16 1 (a). The European Union Charter of fundamental rights provision is Article 47 and the European Convention on Human Rights provision is Article 6.The Supreme Court has handed a landmark judgment upholding the decision of the Court of Appeal reported at [2015] ICR 793; [2015] EWCA Civ 33. The judgment considers a wide ranging of constitutional and international law issues. These include jurisdictional issues, procedural and substantive bars, the test for identifying customary international law, the margin of appreciation in the context of Article 6, absolute/restrictive immunity, and the application of these principles to employment claims falling within the material scope of EU law.
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Arfan Khan led the 4A Law intervention on appeal to the Supreme Court and in the Court of Appeal and made written submissions on the above issues upholding the Court of Appeal judgment.
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