... 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 ... 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 ... namely,that the loss of immunity arose not under customary international law, but rather from the coming into forcein late 1988 of the 1984 Convention Against Torture,48 to which Chile, Spain and the...