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So one can get a little hyperventilatey about sovereign immunity. It isn’t ''that'' bad. As long as you don’t mind your children being fed to crocodiles. | So one can get a little hyperventilatey about sovereign immunity. It isn’t ''that'' bad. As long as you don’t mind your children being fed to crocodiles. | ||
==English law — a special case | ==[[Sovereign immunity]] under [[English law]] — a special case== | ||
===The [[Sovereign Immunity Act 1978]]=== | ===The [[Sovereign Immunity Act 1978]]=== | ||
The [[Sovereign Immunity Act 1978]]<ref>https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/33</ref>, which provides (among other things) that a State is ''not'' immune as respects proceedings relating to a commercial transaction entered into by the State; or an obligation of the State which by virtue of a contract (whether a commercial transaction or not) falls to be performed wholly or partly in the United Kingdom. | The [[Sovereign Immunity Act 1978]]<ref>https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/33</ref>, which provides (among other things) that a State is ''not'' immune as respects proceedings relating to a commercial transaction entered into by the State; or an obligation of the State which by virtue of a contract (whether a commercial transaction or not) falls to be performed wholly or partly in the United Kingdom. | ||