Belhaj and another v Straw and Others; Rahmatullah v Ministry of Defence and another (No 2)

Core Citations

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CONSIDERS

• R (Al-Haq) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
• R v Margaret Jones; Swain v DPP; R v Arthur Milling; R v Toby Olditch; R v Philip Pritchard

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• R v Lyons ; R v Parnes ; R v Ronson ; R v Saunders (No 3)
• R v Mullen (Nicholas Robert Neil)
• Oppenheimer v Cattermole
• Moti v The Queen
• R v Horseferry Road Magistrates Court ex parte Bennett (A.P.)
• Brunswick (Duke of) v King of Hanover
• Habib v Commonwealth of Australia
• Anonymous
• HRH Prince Abdulaziz Bin Mishal Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud v Apex Global Management Ltd
• Nabob of the Carnatic v East India Company
• Mohammed and Others v Ministry of Defence and another; Rahmatullah v Ministry of Defence and another; Iraqi Civilians v Ministry of Defence
• R Wang Yam v Central Criminal Court Attorney General (Interested Party)

REFERS TO

• Aksionairnoye Obschestvo A. M. Luther v Sagor & Company
• Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Ltd v Jaffrate

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• Blathwayt v Baron Cawley
• Princess Paley Olga v Weisz
• Empresa Exportadora de Azucar v Industria Azucarera Nacional S.A. (Marble Islands, Playa Larga)
• The Broadmayne
• Holland v Lampen-Wolfe
• A Ltd v B Bank
• R v Bow Street Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate, ex parte Pinochet Ugarte (No. 3)
• Government of India, Ministry of Finance (Revenue Division) v Taylor and another
• Propend Finance Pty Ltd and Others v Sing and Another
• Epoux Reynolds v Minister for Foreign Affaires
• Regazzoni v K. C. Sethia (1944) Ltd
• AIG Capital Partners Inc. and another v Republic of Kazakhstan (National Bank of Kazakhstan intervening)
• Republic of Ecuador v Occidental Exploration and Production Company
• Adams v Adams
• John Junior Higgs and Another v The Minister of National Security
• R (CND) v Prime Minister
• Habib v Commonwealth
• Adams v National Bank of Greece S.A.; Darling v National Bank of Greece S.A.
• Carr v Fracis Times & Company
• Rahimtoola v Nizam of Hyderabad [England, House of Lords.]
• Serdar Mohammed & Others v Secretary of State for Defence
• Attorney General of New Zealand v Ortiz
• Lecouturier v Rey
• R (Abassi and another) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and another
• Lucasfilm Ltd v Ainsworth
• Johnstone v Pedlar
• Council of Civil Service Unions v Minister for the Civil Service
• Kuwait Airways Corporation v Iraqi Airways Company (Nos 4 & 5)
• Compania Naviera Vascongado v Steamship "Cristina"
• R v Gul
• The Arantzazu Mendi
• Jones v Ministry of the Interior of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and another (Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs and another intervening); Mitchell v Al-Dali;
• R (Al-Jedda) v Secretary of State for Defence
• Rio Tinto Zinc Corporation v Westinghouse Electric Corporation; Re Westinghouse Electric Corporation Uranium Contract Litigation M.D.L. Docket No. 235 (No. 1) and (No. 2)
• Westland Helicopters Ltd v Arab Organisation for Industrialisation
• Republic of India and Another v India Steamship Company Ltd (Indian Endurance and Indian Grace) (No 2)
• Al-Saadoon & Others v Secretary of State for Defence
• R v Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary, ex parte British Council of Turkish Cypriot Associations
• Cook v Sprigg
• The Parlement Belge
• R Noor Khan v The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
• Buck v Attorney General
• Williams and Humbert Ltd v W. & H. Trade Marks (Jersey) Ltd
• Unification Treaty Constitutionality Case
• Bank Indonesia v Senembah Maatschappij and Twentsche Bank
• Re Claim by Helbert Wagg and Company Ltd
• Hilal Abdul Razzaq Ali Al Jedda v The Secretary of State for Defence
• Peer International Corpn v Termidor Music Publishers Ltd
• Larrasquitu v Société Cementos Rezola
• Oppenheimer v Cattermole
• Maclaine Watson & Company Ltd v International Tin Council
• R v Crewe (Earl)ex parte Sekgome
• R (Hurst) v HM Coroner for Northern District London
• R v Gul
• AK Investment CJSC v Kyrgyz Mobil Tel Ltd
• A v Secretary of State for the Home Department (No. 2)

CONSIDERS

• Foreign Enlistment Act 1819
• Buttes Gas and Oil Company v Hammer; Buttes Gas and Oil Company v Hammer (No. 3)
• Attorney General v Nissan

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• Human Rights Act 1998
• Private International Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1995
• Private International Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1995 - Articles : S-14
• State Immunity Act 1978
• State Immunity Act 1978 - Articles : S-1
• State Immunity Act 1978 - Articles : S-6
• Foreign Enlistment Act 1819
• Magna Carta - Criminal and Civil Justice Act 1297
• Serious Crime Act 2007
• State Immunity Act 1978
• Serious Crime Act 2007
• Magna Carta - Criminal and Civil Justice Act 1297
• Human Rights Act 1998
• Private International Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1995

RESUELVE RECURSO

• Belhaj v Straw MP (United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture)

APPLIES

• Yukos Capital S.A.R.L (a Company Incorporated in Luxembourg) v Ojsc Rosneft Oil Company (a Company Incorporated in the Russian Federation)

AFFIRMS

• Belhaj v Straw MP (United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture)

DISTINGUISHES

• United States of America and Republic of France v Dollfus Mieg et Cie, S.A. and Bank of England

CONSIDERED in

• Lighthouse Corporation Ltd and Another v Republica Democratica de Timor Leste and Another
• Makweley Lysongo v The Foreign and Commonwealth Office
• R (on the application of Friends of the Earth Ltd) v The Secretary of State for International Trade / Export Credits Guarantee Department (UK Export Finance) (“UKEF”)

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• Western Sahara Campaign UK v Secretary of State for International Trade
• Mars Capital Finance Ltd v Mr Zahid Hussain
• Zayn Al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn (Abu Zubaydah) v The Foreign and Commonwealth Office
• AAA and Others v Unilever Plc and Another
• King John Bari-Iyiedum Berebon & Others v Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria
• Ms Muna Abdule v The Foreign and Commonwealth Office
• A-Ward Ltd v Raw Metal Corporation Pty Ltd
• Sean Abram and 886 others v Union Des Associations Européennes De Football
• Reliance Industries Ltd v The Union of India
• Zubaydah v Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and Others
• The Serious Fraud Office v Hotel Portfolio II UK Ltd ((in Liquidation)) and Others
• Paul John McElroy v Lynne McElroy (in her capacity as administrator of the estate of Ray James McElroy and in her personal capacity)
• Trafalgar Developments Ltd, Instantania Holdings Ltd, Kamara Ltd and Bairiki Incorporated v Dmitry Mazepin, OJSC United Chemical Company Uralchem, Uralchem Holding Plc, Eurotoaz Ltd, Andrey Gennadyevich Babichev, Yulia Bolotnikova, Belport Investments Ltd, Milko Emilov Minkovski, Androula Charilaou, Dmitry Konyaev and Yevgeniy Yakovlevich Sedykin
• GW Pharma v Otsuka
• Western Sahara Campaign UK v Secretary of State for International Trade
• The Law Debenture Trust Corporation P.L.C v Ukraine, represented by the Minister of Finance of Ukraine acting upon the instructions of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
• Ismail Kamoka and Others v The Security Service and Others
• The “Maduro Board” of the Central Bank of Venezuela v The “Guaidó Board” of the Central Bank of Venezuela
• Dr Ali Mahmoud Hassan Mohamed v Mr Abdulmagid Breish
• Mohammed and Others v Ministry of Defence and another; Rahmatullah v Ministry of Defence and another; Iraqi Civilians v Ministry of Defence

REFERRED in

• Maduro Board of the Central Bank of Venezuela v Guaidó Board of the Central Bank of Venezuela
• Chugai Pharmaceutical Company Ltd v UCB Pharma SA
• Western Sahara Campaign UK v Secretary of State for International Trade

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• Zayn Al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn (Abu Zubaydah) v The Foreign and Commonwealth Office
• Hashwah and Others v Qatar National Bank (QPSC) and Others
• Deutsche Bank AG London Branch and Others v Governor and Company of the Bank of England and Others
• Skatteforvaltningen (Danish Customs and Tax Administration) v Solo Capital Partners LLP (in special administration) and Others
• Iranian Offshore Engineering and Construction Company v Dean Investment Holdings S.A. (formerly Dean International Trading S.A.) and eight others
• King John Bari-Iyiedum Berebon & Others v Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria
• Abdul Hakim Belhaj and Another v Rt Hon Jack Straw and Others
• Zayn Al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn (Abu Zubaydah) v The Foreign and Commonwealth Office
• Yunus Rahmatullah v Amanatullah Ali
• Lady Christine Brownlie (widow and executrix of the estate of Professor Sir Ian Brownlie CBE QC) v Four Seasons Holdings Incorporated (a company incorporated in British Columbia, Canada)
• Dynasty Company for Oil and Gas Trading Ltd v The Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq
• Corinna Zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn v HM Juan Carlos Alfonso
• Zabolotnyi v Mateszalka District Court, Hungary
• B v C
• Zubaydah v Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and Others
• The Serious Fraud Office v Hotel Portfolio II UK Ltd ((in Liquidation)) and Others
• Abdul-Hakim Belhaj and Another v Rt. Hon. Jack Straw MP and Others
• Western Sahara Campaign UK v Secretary of State for International Trade
• Koza Ltd v Koza Altin Isletmeleri as
• Skatteforvaltningen (the Danish Customs and Tax Administration) v Solo Capital Partners LLP (in special administration) and Others
• Crane Bank Ltd v DFCU Bank Ltd
• R (Belhaj) v Director of Public Prosecutions and another
• General Dynamics United Kingdom Ltd v State of Libya
• Ukraine (Represented by the Minister of Finance of Ukraine acting upon the instructions of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine) v The Law Debenture Trust Corporation P.L.C.
• The High Commissioner for Pakistan in the United Kingdom v Prince Mukarram Jah, His Exalted Highness the 8th Nizam of Hyderabad
• Zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn v HM Juan Carlos de Borbón y Borbón
• Dr Saeed Shehabi v The Kingdom of Bahrain
• Zephyrus Capital Aviation Partners 1D Ltd and Others v Fidelis Underwriting Ltd and Others
• Ukraine (Represented by the Minister of Finance of Ukraine acting upon the instructions of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine) v The Law Debenture Trust Corporation P.L.C.
• Dr Ali Mahmoud Hassan Mohamed v Mr Abdulmagid Breish
• Igor Surkis v Petro Poroshenko
• Re Al M (Assurances and Waiver)
• FS Cairo (Nile Plaza) LLC v Brownlie (as Dependant and Executrix of Professor Sir Ian Brownlie CBE QC) (Respondent
• The London Steam-Ship Mutual Insurance Association Ltd v The Kingdom of Spain M/T ‘Prestige’

CITED in

• Dr Ali Mahmoud Hassan Mohamed v Mr Abdulmagid Breish
• Yunus Rahmatullah v Ministry of Defence and Another
• Sean Abram and 886 others v Union Des Associations Européennes De Football

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• Boru Hatlari Ile Petrol Tasima as and Others (also known as Botas Petroleum Pipeline Corporation) v Tepe Insaat Sanayii as
• Paul John McElroy v Lynne McElroy (in her capacity as administrator of the estate of Ray James McElroy and in her personal capacity)

REPORTED OPINION OF in

• [2017] 3 All ER 337
• [2017] AC 964
• 178 ILR 576

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• [2017] 2 WLR 456

This document cites

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• Convenio Europeo para la Protección de los Derechos Humanos y de las Libertades Fundamentales
• Penner v. Niagara Regional Police Services Board et al., (2013) 442 N.R. 140 (SCC)
• Khadr v. Canada, (2014) 466 F.T.R. 244 (FC)
• Kazemi Estate v. Islamic Republic of Iran, [2014] 3 SCR 176
• Mohammed and Others v Ministry of Defence and another; Rahmatullah v Ministry of Defence and another; Iraqi Civilians v Ministry of Defence



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• R Noor Khan v The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
• R v Margaret Jones; Swain v DPP; R v Arthur Milling; R v Toby Olditch; R v Philip Pritchard
• Jones v Ministry of the Interior of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and another (Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs and another intervening); Mitchell v Al-Dali;
• AIG Capital Partners Inc. and another v Republic of Kazakhstan (National Bank of Kazakhstan intervening)
• R v Bow Street Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate, ex parte Pinochet Ugarte (No. 3)
• Moti v The Queen
• Attorney General v Nissan
• R v Gul
• R v Horseferry Road Magistrates Court ex parte Bennett (A.P.)
• Holland v Lampen-Wolfe
• R v Lyons ; R v Parnes ; R v Ronson ; R v Saunders (No 3)
• Blathwayt v Baron Cawley
• Kuwait Airways Corporation v Iraqi Airways Company (Nos 4 & 5)
• Serdar Mohammed & Others v Secretary of State for Defence
• Adams v National Bank of Greece S.A.; Darling v National Bank of Greece S.A.
• Yunus Rahmatullah v The Ministry of Defence and Another
• R v Mullen (Nicholas Robert Neil)
• United States of America and Republic of France v Dollfus Mieg et Cie, S.A. and Bank of England
• Rio Tinto Zinc Corporation v Westinghouse Electric Corporation; Re Westinghouse Electric Corporation Uranium Contract Litigation M.D.L. Docket No. 235 (No. 1) and (No. 2)
• Buck v Attorney General
• Belhaj v Straw MP (United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture)
• Council of Civil Service Unions v Minister for the Civil Service
• Attorney General of New Zealand v Ortiz
• Maclaine Watson & Company Ltd v International Tin Council
• Lucasfilm Ltd v Ainsworth
• Oppenheimer v Cattermole
• R (CND) v Prime Minister
• R (Abassi and another) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and another
• Empresa Exportadora de Azucar v Industria Azucarera Nacional S.A. (Marble Islands, Playa Larga)
• Rahmatullah v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs