Grusic, U;
(2018)
Acts of torture as an instrument of government policy in the Colony of Cyprus in the 1950s and choice of law.
International and Comparative Law Quarterly
(In press).
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Abstract
This article notes the judgment in Sophocleous v Secretary of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, in which the High Court dealt with the law applicable to civil claims arising out of alleged acts of torture committed by British military and security services in the colony of Cyprus in the 1950s. The judgment is important because it sheds light on some underexplored corners of choice of law (law governing the external aspects of vicarious liability and of accessory liability in tort) and reaches the conclusion, which runs against the grain of other recent judgments given in civil claims brought against the Crown for the external exercise of governmental authority, that English law governs.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Acts of torture as an instrument of government policy in the Colony of Cyprus in the 1950s and choice of law |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Conflict of laws, private international law, choice of law, tort, vicarious liability, accessory liability, Cyprus, Crown |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Laws |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10047016 |
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