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Supreme Court of Canada grants leave in appeal involving state immunity of...
On April 26, 2012, the Supreme Court of Canada granted an application for leave to appeal in Tissa Amaratunga v. Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization, a body corporate (N.S.) (Civil) (By Leave)...
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Quebec Court of Appeal Upholds State Immunity for Torture
The Quebec Court of Appeal in Islamic Republic of Iran c. Hashemi, 2012 QCCA 1449 (CanLII) has upheld state immunity for torture of Canadian citizens abroad. The judgment was delivered by Morrisette...
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Riccardo Pavoni, “The American Anomaly: On the ICJ’s Misuse of United States...
Riccardo Pavoni (University of Siena – Faculty of Law) has posted “The American Anomaly: On the ICJ’s Misuse of United States Practice in Jurisdictional Immunities of the State”, Italian Yearbook of...
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Steen v. Islamic Republic of Iran (Ont. C.A.): A Silver Lining in the State...
The Court of Appeal for Ontario has again reinforced state immunity for torture and human rights abuses in Steen v. Islamic Republic of Iran, 2013 ONCA 30 (Ont. C.A.), aff’g 2011 ONSC 6464 (CanLII...
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Supreme Court of Canada grants leave to appeal in Kazemi v. Rep. of Iran...
The Supreme Court of Canada today granted leave to appeal in Estate of the Late Zahra (Ziba) Kazemi et al. v. Islamic Replubic of Iran et al. (Que.) (Civil) (By Leave) (35034) Coram: McLachlin /...
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No State Immunity for South Africa in Wrongful Dismissal Suit
Roy v. South Africa, 2013 ONSC 4633 (CanLII) is another in a recent series of Canadian court decisions involving state immunity in the employment context. See my previous posts here and here. The...
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My New Paper: “Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Canada”
I’ll be speaking at the upcoming Ontario Bar Association Institute 2014, “Internationalizing Commercial Contracts” program and have prepared a paper entitled “Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign...
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