Type: Judgment

Authority: National Courts: Supreme Courts (France) - Cour de Cassation

Date: 03/09/2011

Subject: The Cour de Cassation, also mentioning the jurisprudence of the Court of Strasbourg, has rejected the claim based on the annulment of a decision of the Tribunal de Grande Istance of Paris, which had deemed inadmissible the claims for compensation lodged by various claimants against the Libyan State for the attack against flight UTA 722 of 19 September 1989, affirming again in such occasion the principle of jurisdictional immunity of foreign States

Parties: La Réunion aérienne, Groupement d'intérêt économique et autres e Jamahiriya Arabe populaire et socialiste

Original language: French

Classification: Justice - Art. 47 Right to an effective remedy before a tribunal

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