On 1 January 2024, Foreign State Immunity Law of The People’s Republic of China (“FSIL”) came into effect, changing and clarifying the position of sovereign immunity under the laws of Hong Kong and ...

The head of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) has said Crown immunity for the prison service should be abolished, according to the lawyer representing the families of two young people who died in ...

The campaign comes after an inquiry into two deaths at a Scottish jail found a “catalogue of failures” in the prison system.

One of Hong Kong's major lures as a base for international companies doing business in Asia has been recourse to its British-established common law courts. But recent Hong Kong rulings have raised the ...