... namely,that the loss of immunity arose not under customary international law, but rather from the coming into forcein late 1 988 of the 1 984 Convention Against Torture, 48 to which Chile, Spain and the ... steps inOur story now turns away from a national court to another international court in The Hague, the International Court of Justice (the ICJ, sometimesAfter Pinochet: the role of national ... strong support for the poten-tial role of national courts, against the background of the principle of ‘complementarity’ found in the Statute of the ICC. But the judgment of the House of Lords hasalso...