Ministry of the Interior Al-Mamlaka Al-Arabiya AS Saudiya (The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) and Others [2006] UKHL 26.As regards the immunity of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia itself, the House ruled, in the two fully reasoned speeches given by Lord Bingham of Cornhill and Lord Hoffmann, and with the agreement of all the other three members of the Appellate Committee (Lord Rodger of Earlsferry, Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe, and Lord Carswell), that there was no sufficient state… [read post]