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 believing in the the historic doctrine that the British Crown has sovereignty over expansive parts of the oceans.