{"id":514135,"date":"2010-04-04T19:31:11","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T23:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opiniojuris.org\/?p=11807"},"modified":"2010-04-04T19:31:11","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T23:31:11","slug":"more-on-suing-the-pope-maybe-he-should-avoid-britain-for-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/514135","title":{"rendered":"More on Suing the Pope: Maybe He Should Avoid Britain for a While"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>by Julian Ku <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Happy Easter, everyone! \u00a0I recognize this is a bit of an unpleasant topic to bring up on a holy day, but it is worth noting that the rumblings about litigation against the Vatican and the Pope over the various child-sex-abuse scandals continue. \u00a0Lawyers in the UK are actively researching how and whether to bring legal action during the Pope&#8217;s upcoming visit. \u00a0As <a  href=\"http:\/\/opiniojuris.org\/2010\/04\/03\/can-the-pope-be-sued-maybe\/#comments\">commenters<\/a> to my earlier post have pointed out, any claim against the Pope himself, or the Vatican, under international law seems fairly sketchy. \u00a0But a lawsuit might still be filed.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5gcxiBTY31XjpK5oDY9h3emUID9FwD9ES6FQG0\">From the AP<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Protests are growing against Pope Benedict XVI&#8217;s planned trip to Britain, where some lawyers question whether the Vatican&#8217;s implicit statehood status should shield the pope from prosecution over sex crimes by pedophile priests.<\/p>\n<p>More than 10,000 people have signed a petition on Downing Street&#8217;s web site against the pope&#8217;s 4-day visit to England and Scotland in September, which will cost U.K. taxpayers an estimated 15 million pounds ($22.5 million).<\/p>\n<p>The campaign has gained momentum as more Catholic sex abuse scandals have swept across Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Although Benedict has not been accused of any crime, senior British lawyers are now examining whether the pope should have immunity as a head of state and whether he could be prosecuted under the principle of universal jurisdiction for an alleged systematic cover-up of sexual abuses by priests.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/opiniojurisfeed\/~4\/QKIbbZXTMY8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Julian Ku Happy Easter, everyone! \u00a0I recognize this is a bit of an unpleasant topic to bring up on a holy day, but it is worth noting that the rumblings about litigation against the Vatican and the Pope over the various child-sex-abuse scandals continue. \u00a0Lawyers in the UK are actively researching how and whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}