In an audacious and unprecedented move, the Queen’s Bench Division of the High Court has decided to dis-apply the State Immunity Act 1978 (SIA) and registered a judgment obtained in Nigeria against a sovereign state (Nigeria) because the SIA is incompatible with the Human Rights Act 1998.
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