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Sean Wilken KC

@swilkenkc.bsky.social
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KC, mediator and arbitrator specialising in international, commercial, construction and energy law. GB FIS rep. May post about international law, politics and various security issues. Also skis, climbs, dives, fences, reads & writes the odd book.

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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Wigs don’t get any cheaper do they….? (Had mine stolen in Preston Crown Court and HK robes in open court even in commercial cases and am sitting 3 times in the next year - ergo new wig)
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Back in the UK. A somewhat interesting flight due to software failure. Still last night someone called me Sir Sean….
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There are times when jet lag absolutely kicks you in the head. Yesterday was one of them. Got into the hotel at 0100 - by time had faffed around it was 0300. Awake at 0500. I retired to bed at 2000.
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I am doing the 3 time zone juggle…
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sitting done. Bags packed. Next stop Dubai
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
HK on a warm Saturday
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Time for the inevitable Dark Knight impersonation….
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It’s Harvest Moon Festival time!
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Judges’ dinner
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Victoria Harbour
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
HK Sat evening
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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
In this extended #ReadingRussia: Remembering Mikhail Gorbachev who died four years ago today. I read some of the new textbooks for Russian schools. And the petrol queues have made it into the joke pages of Russian newspapers. Plus, a long overdue spring clean.
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I read some of the new textbooks for Russian schools
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
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CorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦 @corrina.sheshed.rocks · 26/08/2026
🇨🇦 🎶Oh, we’re going to a trade war… They thought Canada would fold without a fight. Instead, we rally side by side🍁 Never mistake Canadian politeness for weakness. We can say “sorry” AND stand our ground🇨🇦 #CanadaStrong #ElbowsUp #SheShed
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The view from the new digs
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
@seanjones.org on the plane. My flight attendant also a Sean!
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
As a commercial practitioner, we don’t wear robes. So… blew dust off my silk stuff… made sure everything was ironed
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Shopping done. Proper judicial kit now obtained…
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I have been on a bands, stiff collar and studs buying trip. My god. The kit has got expensive.
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Again. Don’t like to Harp on but anyone checked out the Russian connections to the human printer?
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Day 1 of packing. Just lay everything out
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Other items of HK prep. When on an extended visit I read Le Carre’s Honourable Schoolboy. This time to sort of save trees it’s on Kindle.
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Well, I have the judicial bundle whinge box ticked…
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I hate to Harp on but there’s something deeply odd about someone writing mash notes to any president never mind this one…
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A week today it’s a flight to HK for a month of High Court sitting
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I see the cowardly catering cart crawler hiding from his flying inadequate bribe/decoy feels the need to prove his manliness by threatening to bomb an ally (Oman) while sending crony cover to invade another (Greenland) with illegal drilling kit.
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Down to the last 3 trees for the winter coppice. As usual they are unexpectedly huge
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Hey. Look it’s walk to us buffet… Have dived within about 10m to 30m of 100s of sharks. First time I went “o look a shark” (there is underwater dive speak for this) it went “meh”. After that we all went meh.
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
If a section of the NW Highlands is wiped out in a thermonuclear detonation - that’s me assembling a chest of drawers
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
How do you know that there is a solar eclipse in the NW Highlands? The clouds are darker and more threatening. That's it
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Looking at a possible new Mac. Yay gods, the price. <Bleeds from eyes <hides in corner
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
“It’s a cold morning, Captain” “cold… and hard” And “I come before you to protest a grave injustice” Yup it’s double over the top cinema night…
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Flight attendant on Istanbul - London flight to Purser “Sorry, 1A wants to be downgraded” Purser: ??? “As do 1C and F and all of rows 2 and 3” ???!????? “they all want to go to the very back of the plane” ????!?!?!???????! “They’ve found out we’ve smuggled Trump on board”
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
First Class Flyer Istanbul - London “what the heck is this disease, ketchup and fat ridden orange blancmange on my plate? I ordered Rump Steak?” “Sorry. Someone got the catering carts mixed up…”
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Is the HP slavery thread just a bad case of someone being dobby’d in or have people lost their marbles or just throwing rocks?
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Having finished the several thousand pages of the epic biography of Lincoln by Blumenthal which features a lot of the debates about ante-bellum slavery and repeated duelling threats from soon to be Confederates, I do hope the HP debate has covered that angle….
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It’s the 25th of the LoTR films which means we all came for the spectacle (some of us for the premieres) we stayed for the Rohirrim… I got a very sore backside due to riding Rohirrim horses
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
So… I was today years’ old when I learned that if a slug crawls into the miracle grow 4 in 1 that your dropped on the shed floor you find properly exploded slug remnants the following morning
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
TBF a solar eclipse is not rare in the NW Highlands this year but is called “dreich” or “it must be a day ending in y”
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
2026 subbies clearly have not lost their mojo.
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Those thinking of coming to the NW Highlands - you ain’t coming for the weather. We’ve had the summer (3 days of it). Looks like the autumn storms are here and the Atlantic has come onto land for its holidays.
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
In other news: jail is giving Andrew Tate an upset tummy. Which is a shame - after all he’s been making the rest of us vomit for years.
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Or candidate to be top lawyer complies momentarily with the law but only because it serves his interests.
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I assume Johnson also nicked off with the sofa that was v useful for finding cash down the back of. Because UK science could do with a few million in funding right now
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
This is basically my last supper dinner party guest list. All for a mere £2.8m
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
As the Dachshund is in Cheshire it’s pine marten party time
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Richard Briers narrating Gardeners World. Ship me off to Dignitas…
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
O god. Old school Gardeners World it’s all single entendres “this bush needs a trim” “once again if you don’t look after it, this won’t grow and will get all mouldy” “unless this is moist, it’s of no use to anyone” “none of these are easy or will come quickly”
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
You know you have reached late middle age and in Scotland - when you find Scottish Gardeners World and they are doing winter prep
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Superman is on. The midge are out so it’s time for “North Miss Tessmaker, north!” @seanjones.org
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I have read my Bar Council email. Apparently “oracy” is a word now
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