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The Murder of Jamal Khashoggi: Immunities, Inviolability and the Human Right...
The previous post in the series looked at the situation that preceded the attack on Khashoggi by Saudi agents; in this one we move to the time of the attack itself. Saudi Arabia’s violation of its...
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The Murder of Jamal Khashoggi: Immunities, Inviolability and the Human Right...
Prior posts in this series examined the legal situation before and during the attack on Khashoggi; this one examines its aftermath. After Khashoggi’s death, the substantive negative and positive...
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The Murder of Jamal Khashoggi: Immunities, Inviolability and the Human Right...
The murder of Jamal Khashoggi is in many respects a truly extraordinary case. But it is by no means unique – authoritarian states assassinate journalists and political dissidents with some frequency....
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Callamard Report on the Murder of Jamal Khashoggi: Part I
Last week the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, Agnes Callamard, submitted to the Human Rights Council her long-awaited final report on the investigation she conducted on the murder of...
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Callamard Report on the Murder of Jamal Khashoggi: Part II
In my second post on the report on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi by the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, I will discuss some of its most interesting legal findings. The key finding,...
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Inviolability and the Protest at the Bahraini Embassy
This week Channel 4 News broadcast a remarkable story about a dissident who climbed onto the roof of the Bahraini Embassy in London. The man, Moosa Mohammed, was part of a larger group protesting...
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Functional immunity of foreign State officials in respect of international...
On 29 January 2020, the District Court of The Hague rendered a possibly momentous judgment that may reverse an international trend to deny functional immunity to State officials in respect of...
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Diplomatic Immunity Trumps Children’s Rights, the English High Court...
This case concerned proceedings brought by a local authority to protect three children, specifically seeking a care order under Part IV of the Children Act 1989. There were credible allegations that...
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Diplomats or fonctionnaires? The Contested Status of the EU’s ‘Embassy’ in...
May the European Union have a full diplomacy, on a par with States? This issue has been problematic since 1954, when the European Coal and Steel Community opened its first delegation – in London....
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The Waiver of Immunity of Catalan MEPs: Reintroducing Politics in EU...
On 8 March 2021, the European Parliament voted to lift the immunity of Catalan MEPs, Puigdemont, Comin and Ponsati. Although this long-lasting saga is far from being over as Puigdemont already...
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