Re Pulos and Others

Abstract

587Sea — High seas — Jurisdiction — Hot pursuit — Smuggling — Principle of freedom of the high seas — Derogations under customary international law — Protection of interests of coastal State — Geneva Convention on the High Seas, 1958, Articles 2 and 23 — Whether more restrictive than customary law right of hot pursuit — Foreign ship outside territorial waters — Suspected of working with smaller craft in smuggling — Arrest of smaller vessel within territorial waters — Whether permitting hot pursuit of larger ship on high seasJurisdiction — Territorial — Territorial waters — Hot pursuit — Smuggling — The law of Italy