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The Prohibition on Torture: Driving Jus Cogens Home?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Jutta Brunnée
Jutta Brunnée*
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Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
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Transnational Legal Dialogue, a Human Rights-Based Hierarchy, and the Creation of Norms
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 104 , 2010 , pp. 454 - 457
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2010

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References

1 See Suresh v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration), 1 S.C.R. 3, para. 61 (2002); Bouzari v. Islamic Republic of Iran (Ont. Ct. of Appeal) 71 Or (3rd) 675 (2004).

2 Rex v. Hape, S.C.R. 26 [2007].

3 See Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, arts. 53 & 64, UNTS 1155 (1969), 331.

5 Rex v. Bow Street Magistrate, ex parte Pinochet (No. 3), 1 A.C. 147 (H.L.) (2000).

6 See Bates, Ed, State Immunity for Torture, 7 HUM. Rts. L. Rev. 651 (2007)Google Scholar.

7 Case Concerning the Arrest Warrant of 11 April 2000 (Dem. Rep. Congo v. Belg.), 2002 ICJ Rep. 3, paras. 56-58 (2002).

8 These arguments had prevailed in civil cases from Greece and Italy. See Prefecture of Voiotia v. Federal Republic of Germany, Case No. 11/2000 (Greek Court of Cassation), 95 AJIL 198 (transi. Maria Gavouneli & Ilias Bantekas) (2001); Ferrini v. Federal Republic of Germany (Cass. Sez UN 5044/04) 128 ILR 658 (reproduced in (2006).

9 Jones v. Ministry of Interior Al-Mamlaka Al-Arabiya As Saudiya (the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) et al., UKHL 26 (2006). The ICJ will have an opportunity to consider these questions in Germany v. Italy. See Bettauer, Ronald J., Germany Sues Italy at the International Court of Justice on Foreign Sovereign Immunity, 13 (22) Asil Insights (2009)Google Scholar, at http://www.asil.org/files/insight091119pdf.pdf.

10 Suresh, supra note 10, para. 61.

11 Id. at paras. 62-65.

12 Id. at para. 75.

13 Id. at para. 78.

14 Id. at para. 60.

15 See, e.g., A (FC) et al. (FC) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department, UKHL 56 (2004); Norris v. Government of United States of America, Uksc 9 (2010).

16 See Attorney General v. Zaoui et al., NZSC 38 (2005), para. 16.

17 Committee against Torture, 34th Session, Consideration of Reports Submitted by States Parties Under Article 19, Conclusions and Recommendations: Canada, Cat/C/CR/34/CAN, July 7, 2005, p.2, at http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/43f2fe460.pdf.

18 See § 6 (a), State Immunity Act, R.S.C. 1985, c-. S-18.

19 Bouzari, supra note 1, at para. 84.

20 Id. at para. 87.

21 Id. at para. 88.

22 See Rex. v. Bow Street Magistrate, ex parte Pinochet (No. 3), supra note 5 (per Lord Millet).

23 Bouzari, supra note 1, para. 89.

24 Id. at para. 91.

25 Id. at para. 90.

26 Id. at paras. 69-81.

27 Committee against Torture, supra note 17, at para. 5(f).

28 Jones, supra note 9, at para. 23.

29 Id. at para. 57.

30 Bouzari, supra note 1, at para. 67.

31 Id. at para. 65.

32 ld. at paras. 66-67.

33 Hape, supra note 2, at para. 39.

34 Id. at para. 53.

35 Id. at paras. 55-56.

36 Koh, Harold Hongju, The 1998 Frankéi Lecture: Bringing International Law Home, 35 Hous. Int’l L.J. 623 (1998)Google Scholar.