![]() This judgment is another interesting instalment in creative judicial approaches to attribution.Īs regards immunities, in May 2019, AM had commenced proceedings in the English High Court seeking the return of the two children to Dubai. ![]() The Court also noted that NSO had “adopted the extreme remedy” of terminating services to an unnamed customer state following an internal investigation into the hacking of the phones of Princess Haya and her solicitors (paras. The “evidential canvas” included a conversation with a NSO senior manager that referred to a “big state” and a “little state” (para. 152-171) noting that AM did not have to “prove anything” and had “chosen not to attempt to do so” the Court therefore did not have “any evidence to put in the balance against a finding that the originator was the UAE on his authority” (para. The High Court undertook an attribution analysis (paras. But I note that there is much of interest in all of the judgments, including the finding in one strand of these complex proceedings that AM used NSO Pegasus to hack the mobile phones of Princess Haya and her solicitors. In this post I comment on the newly-released judgments on immunities. And on 6 October, a number of judgments were made public in the proceedings relating to the welfare of the two children of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum (“AM”), the Ruler of the Emirate of Dubai and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, and Her Royal Highness Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein (“Princess Haya”). The Fifth President of Ukraine (2014-2019) Petro Poroshenko has been found to be immune from claims arising out of Ukraine’s nationalisation of PrivatBank. Permission has been granted to serve the President of Mozambique in a case involving claims challenging state guarantees of the financing for projects in Mozambique. There have been a flurry of cases in the English courts concerning foreign leaders in recent months. ![]()
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