Argentine lawyer mocks UK’s sovereignty claim in Falklands oil case

Lawyer says Britain wrong to believe in historic doctrine that Crown has sovereignty over parts of oceans Britain should not be permitted to act as a 17th century colonial power treating the waters around the Falkland Islands as a Dominium maris Britannici, Argentina has told an international tribunal. Marcelo Kohen, representing Argentina at a hearing in Hamburg, mocked Britain for apparently…

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Lawyer says Britain wrong to believe in historic doctrine that Crown has sovereignty over parts of oceans Britain should not be permitted to act as a 17th century colonial power treating the waters around the Falkland Islands as a Dominium maris Britannici,…

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