2 Diplomatic Immunities (recap — the Vienna Convention on DiplomaticRelations, 1961)

The VCDR regime (full treatment in IRD5203, Unit 6): mission-level — inviolability of premises (Art. 22), archives (Art. 24), the diplomatic bag (Art. 27), exemption of premises from tax/search (Arts. 23, 28); agent-level — personal inviolability (Art. 29), total criminal immunity with three civil exceptions (Art. 31), tax and customs exemptions (Arts. 34–36), extension to families and graded staff (Art. 37), duration to leaving with official-act immunity enduring (Art. 39), waiver by the sending state alone (Art. 32), duties to respect local law and non-interference (Arts. 41–42); PNG as the receiving state's ultimate answer (Art. 9). The exam's PIL focus: immunity's rationale (function, not dignity), the functionalism's gradations (family/diplomatic/administrative staff), and the immunity–inviolability pair's meaning: immunity = no jurisdiction; inviolability = no coercion at all.