Health and Safety Law 2024 (October 2024)

Although an embassy based in the UK will generally have immunity from most employment law claims made by staff where their role is sufficiently close to the exercise of sovereign authority, state immunity does not apply to personal injury claims. In the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) case, The Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia (Cultural Bureau) v Alhayali [2023] EAT 149, the EAT confirmed that personal injury covers psychiatric as well as physical injury.

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