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iiclr-17800	Sullivan Jr., Frank	PART III: Customary International Law and Statutes	2004	30	.pdf	application/pdf	13445	664	57	Seeing that the rules of international law have changed-and do change-and that the courts have given effect to the changes without any Act of Parliament, it follows to my mind inexorably that the rules of international law, as existing from time to time, do form part of our English law.412 Finding that the change in customary international law had been incorporated into English common law and that the Bank had been engaged in commercial or proprietary actions in issuing the letter of credit, the court found that the Bank was not entitled to immunity. Nor [was] there any jus cogens in respect of such breaches of international law which require that a claim of sovereign immunity, itself a well-established principle of international law, should be overridden.42' Still within the realm of U.K. domestic law's incorporation of customary international law, Lord Slynn found it necessary to examine a related problem: whether the recognition of certain acts as international crimes had any effect on the immunity provided former heads of state in both the State Immunity Act and in customary international law.	cache/iiclr-17800.pdf	txt/iiclr-17800.txt