Read the full judgment text of on BabelCite. was delivered on 8 September 2011.
1. On 8 June 2011, [1] the Court held by a majority that the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (“ HKSAR ”) cannot as a matter of legal and constitutional principle, adhere to a doctrine of state immunity which differs from that adopted by the Central People’s Government (“ CPG ”) and that the doctrine of state immunity practised in the HKSAR, is accordingly a doctrine of absolute immunity. [2] It similarly held that such immunity had not been waived by the Democratic Republic of the Congo.