CA-2024-000624 & CA-2024-000625 - [2025] EWCA Civ 1162

Fecha: 11-Sep-2025

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Neutral Citation Number: [2025] EWCA Civ 1162

Case No: CA-2024-000624 & CA-2024-000625

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION)

ON APPEAL FROM THE EMPLOYMENT APPEAL TRIBUNAL

THE HON. MR JUSTICE BOURNE

EA2022000096AP

Royal Courts of Justice

Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

Date: 11/09/2025

Before:

THE PRESIDENT OF THE FAMILY DIVISION (SIR ANDREW McFARLANE)

LORD JUSTICE BEAN
and

LORD JUSTICE COULSON

Between :

THE ROYAL EMBASSY OF SAUDI ARABIA (CULTURAL BUREAU)

Appellant/

Respondent

- and -

MS ABIR ALHAYALI

Respondent/Claimant

Claire Darwin KC and Andrew Legg (instructed by Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP) for the Appellant Embassy

Madeline Stanley (instructed by Anti-Trafficking and Labour Exploitation Unit) for the Respondent Ms Alhayali

Hearing dates: 1 & 2 July 2025

Approved Judgment

This judgment was handed down remotely at 10.00am on 11 September 2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives.

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