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Exemption from Giving Evidence

Eileen Denza

From: Diplomatic Law: Commentary on the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (3rd Edition)

Professor Eileen Denza

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Content type:
Book content
Product:
Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law [OSAIL]
Series:
Oxford Commentaries on International Law
Published in print:
20 March 2008
ISBN:
9780199216857

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 05 October 2023

Subject(s):
Diplomatic immunity — Diplomatic missions — Immunity from jurisdiction, absolute
… 2. A diplomatic agent is not obliged to give evidence as a witness. … Although it must for many centuries have been the practice among States that a diplomatic agent could not on account of his inviolability be compelled to give evidence in criminal or civil proceedings, the matter does not seem to have been discussed specifically by writers on diplomatic law until the nineteenth century.1 The earliest celebrated incident where the giving of evidence by a diplomat was in question occurred in 1856 in Washington where a homicide occurred in the presence of the...
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