The Law Governing United Kingdom Government Tort Liability in the ‘War on Terror’
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9931688 |
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| Authors | Uglješa Grušić (0000-0002-2193-3614, Faculty (United Kingdom), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 73 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1045-1060 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International and Comparative Law Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-5893 • E-ISSN: 1471-6895 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020589324000344 |
| OpenAlex | W4405198632 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
This article discusses the United Kingdom Supreme Court judgment in Zubaydah v Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office , which addressed the law governing the tort liability of the United Kingdom Government for its alleged complicity in the claimant's arbitrary detention and torture overseas by the Central Intelligence Agency. In holding that English law applied, the Court departed from previous case law by giving decisive weight to public law factors in its choice-of-law reasoning. This decision arguably heralds a greater role for English law in relation to tort claims brought by overseas victims of allegedly wrongful exercises of British executive authority as a mechanism for achieving executive accountability, controlling abuse of power, ensuring the rule of law and providing victims access to remedy
Comparative law · Human rights · Liability · Plaintiff · Political science · Precedent · Public law · Supreme court · Tort · Torture · International Law and Aviation · International Law and Human Rights · Law · Law, logistics, and international trade
| Highly cited | No |
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