UK Supreme Court

No Immunity for Diplomats Who Hold Domestic Workers in Conditions of Modern Slavery

The U.K. Supreme Court issued an important decision last week in  Basfar v. Wong. The Court held that a diplomat who allegedly kept a domestic employee in conditions of modern slavery was not immune from suit because the alleged conduct brought the suit within the commercial activity exception to immunity under the Vienna Convention on…

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Vanderbilt Law School
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George Washington University Law School
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Cornell Law School
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University of North Carolina School of Law
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UC Davis School of Law
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Rubin and Rudman LLP
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Georgetown University Law Center
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