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Tort Law and State Accountability for Overseas Violations of International Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law: the UK Perspective

Grusic, U; (2021) Tort Law and State Accountability for Overseas Violations of International Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law: the UK Perspective. Utrecht Journal of International and European Law , 36 (2) pp. 152-169. 10.5334/ujiel.545. Green open access

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Abstract

This article argues that tort law has a role to play in holding the British government to account for overseas violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law. The context of tortious claims for overseas violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law brings to the fore, on one hand, issues of attribution and Crown and foreign acts of State and, on the other hand, issues of private international law. This article describes the approach of UK courts to key issues raised by tortious claims for overseas violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law, namely subject-matter jurisdiction and the law applicable to the merits.

Type: Article
Title: Tort Law and State Accountability for Overseas Violations of International Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law: the UK Perspective
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.5334/ujiel.545
Publisher version: http://doi.org/10.5334/ujiel.545
Language: English
Additional information: © 2021 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Utrecht Journal of International and European Law is a peer-reviewed open access journal published by Ubiquity Press.
Keywords: UK, tort law, human rights, international humanitarian law, overseas violations
UCL classification: UCL
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/10130188
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