Professor François Larocque has published a new bilingual book on the State Immunity Act, alongside co-author Justice Azim Hussain. Entitled Loi sur l’immunité des états annotée | Annotated State Immunity Act (Wilson & Lafleur), the book is a user-friendly guide to the often complex legal world of state immunity, offering a summary of relevant Canadian cases.
As per the publisher’s website: “This book provides an up-to-date, fully bilingual and bijural summary of the case law under the State Immunity Act (SIA) for the benefit of Canadian and international legal audiences. It is intended as a practical guide to the SIA, a user-friendly handbook for the practitioner who is called upon to advise or represent on matters that engage issues of state immunity, as well as for the judge who must adjudicate. What does the case law say on the form of service required when suing a foreign state? How is the commercial exception interpreted? This book provides pithy summaries of Canadian cases that have dealt with the provisions of the SIA, while minimizing editorial comment on those cases. Some pre-SIA decisions are also included to the extent that they shed light on relevant common law principles.”
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