“… the minefield of negotiating objectives as a substitute for focusing upon the “text as a source for determining the parties’ intentions”: See Al Malki v Reyes [2019] AC 735 at paragraph [11]. The duty of this court is not therefore to work out whether, in the hurly burly of negotiations, the UK or the EU got a better or worse deal…”
“…[2017] UKSC 61, [2019] AC 735, multilateral treaties are the result of an intensely deliberative process in which the language is minutely debated. The text is the only thing that all the m…”
“…ary international law. The Divisional Court made that clear by quoting extensively from the judgments in Al-Malki v. Reyes (SSFCDA intervening) [2017] UKSC 61, [2019] AC 735 (Reyes) (see also Basfar v. Wong [2022] UKSC 20, [2022] 3 WLR 208 (Wong) at [16]-[18]). The VCDR is the cornerstone of international relations and has withstoo…”