X v Y and Tunisia, Appeal judgment, 4C.379/2006/ech, ILDC 1202 (CH 2007), 22nd May 2007, Switzerland

Case note on Judgment 4C.379/2006/ech of 22 May 2007, for the online database Oxford Reports on International Law. In this judgment, the Swiss Federal Tribunal denied its jurisdiction to adjudicate a claim of compensation for damages resulting from acts of torture where all the facts took place abroad between foreign persons, none of whom had their habitual residence in Switzerland at the time. The case was subsequently brought by the Applicant to the European Court of Human Rights: see Case of Naït-Liman v Switzerland, Judgment, European Court of Human Rights, Second Section, Request No 51357/07, 21 June 2016 and Case of Naït-Liman v Switzerland, Judgment, European Court of Human Rights, Grand Chamber, Request No 51357/07, 15 March 2018.