Stephen
Kosmin’s article
“Wikileaks and International Law: inviolability vs. inadmissibility in Bancoult
(No 3)” (co-authored with Professor Robert McCorquodale) has been published
in the latest edition of the UK Supreme Court Yearbook
Volume 9: 2017 – 2018 Legal Year, (Daniel Clarry (ed), Appellate
Press 2019).
Stephen Kosmin appeared as junior counsel in R (Bancoult
No 3) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs [2018] UKSC
3, in which the Supreme Court considered whether the Vienna Convention on
Diplomatic Relations 1961 operated as a bar to a WikiLeaks cable being
admissible in domestic courts as to the truth of its contents.
The UK Supreme Court
Yearbook critically reviews the jurisprudence of the UK Supreme Court each
legal year and publishes chapters on a range of institutional and jurisprudential
aspects of the Court and its decisions by prominent commentators including
eminent academics, leading barristers (many of
whom argue the UKSC cases each year) and judges (including the UKSC Justices
and judges from highest appellate courts internationally).
A copy
of the UK Supreme Court Yearbook is available at: http://www.wildy.com/isbn/9781911250180/the-uk-supreme-court-yearbook-volume-9-2017-2018-legal-year-hardback-appellate-press”
