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Member State
Italy
Themes
Type of document
Jurisprudence
Permanent link to the contribution
http://www.cahdidatabases.coe.int/C/Immunities/Italy/1979/142
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Database of the CAHDI "The immunities of States and international organisations" - contribution of Italy - Jurisprudence of 26/05/1979

Velloso (individual) v. Borla (individual)

Author(ity)

Supreme Court of Cassation

Date of the decision, of the judgment

26/05/1979

Points of law

Working activities immediately related to decisional, directive or responsible offices of an embassy, are not subjected to italian jurisdiction.

Summary of the case

Italian jurisdiction on a foreign State is excluded in case the latter, while working in order to carry out its public functions, aimed at attaining its institutional goals, employed in Italy a subject entitled to perform decision-making, managing or clerk functions within the organisational structure of its Embassy or of bodies closely linked with it.

Sources

Italian Yearbook of International Law, 1980-81, 232

Additional information (explanations, notes, etc.)

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