“…o decide which states, rulers or governments it will recognise, this being an exercise of the Royal prerogative. As Lord Atkin explained in The Arantzazu Mendi [1939] AC 256 at 264:…”
“…estions of public policy and considerations of the interrelationship of the judicial and executive arms of government may be paramount: see The Arantzazu Mendi [1939] AC 256, 264 and Gur Corporation v Trust Bank of Africa Ltd [1987] QB 599,625. But now that the question has ceased to be one of recognition, the theoretical possibili…”
“…As Lord Atkin held in The Arantzazu Mendi [1939] AC 256, at p. 265, that applies as much to the de facto recognition of a state as it does to a de jure recognition. Thus the recognition of a foreign government by HM…”