Marcelo Kohen in court
Marcelo Kohen was representing Argentina at a hearing in Hamburg. Photograph: Gregor Fischer/Getty Images
Marcelo Kohen was representing Argentina at a hearing in Hamburg. Photograph: Gregor Fischer/Getty Images
Argentinian 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.