Claims against UK not barred by state immunity

Claims of unlawful abduction, kidnapping and removal to Libya in March 2004 brought against a number of UK officials and departments were not barred by state immunity or by the act of state doctrine, the Court of Appeal has held in Belhaj & Anor v Jack Straw & Ors [2014] EWCA Civ 1394. The court noted that the principles of state immunity and act of state operate in different ways, and that the facts of the case engaged the act of state doctrine.