Counsel to REDRESS Trust in the Supreme Court of Canada in a case involving the right to sue foreign governments for torture
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Represented the REDRESS Trust in the Supreme Court of Canada (and in the Quebec Court of Appeal) as intervener in Kazemi Estate v Islamic Republic of Iran. Kazemi involved the application of state immunity to civil claims of torture. REDRESS argued that state immunity for torture should not apply to foreign public officials personally responsible for carrying out the act. 2014 SCC 62; 2012 QCCA 1449