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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 · 13h
My god. The journo should be taken out and shot for prose style alone, never mind the absolutely atrocious content. I would say it was utter toss but that would be rude to toss
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 17h
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. Trump proposes we should unfreeze sanctioned Russian assets and place them under his control…. In other news I have a bridge to sell you which is more legit than that…..
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 17h
There’s a YouTube video for that
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 17h
“Egrets I’ve photo’d a few but then again too few to mention”?
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
O look. Man known for lying and having links with Russia cites source also known for lying and having links with Russia.
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
In part because Russian interference was taken out of the agencies’ remit - see the ISC report
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
There was also a persistent rumour that he was not allowed access to classified documents as he was a known security risk. Certainly SIS advised against Lebedev’s enobling.
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
De Pfeffel left a NATO summit on the Russian attack on Uk soil (Skripal), dumped his security detail and went to a Bunga Bunga party at Lebedev’s father’s (FSB) house in Italy. Where he got so smashed that he said he couldn’t recollect a thing and was still v rancid the next morning.
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The people who fail to realise people live here and use the gate or access as a toilet and a bin are fairly common. I challenged one (on a motorbike). He alleged he couldn’t see a house. At which I took his plate no and said “well you manifestly can’t see so shouldn’t be on a bike….”
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Thanks v much to the person who fly tipped in my recycling bin. <locates disposable blue gloves
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Well. True
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Allegedly this
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Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid Shootout
ALT: Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid Shootout
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
(I have actually done this). The aircraft cannot move and the passengers cannot leave.
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Plus your own troops if deployed abroad lose protection. Plus, of course, someone could simply start arresting English aircraft. Citizen of Country B brings wrongful death suit in suitable country. Wins. That means they can arrest any English aircraft (including cargo/luggage/passengers) anywhere
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
You cannot by legislation in country A strip all other countries of jurisdiction. And that includes Scotland
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Only within the jurisdiction
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Still leaves reciprocity and rogue state
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Plus as a manifestly illegal order a bit difficult to rely on the military exemption
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
It's fine if they agree never to travel outwith England (the E word used advisedly)
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I agree that Reform would have to hunt for bad actors.
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Still the RoE would be interesting: 1. Do they look forrin? 2. Are they in a boat? 3. Are they unarmed? 4. That's an act of war, fire at will. As always when one engages with the legality or otherwise of kill orders on civilians, one hits the Einsatzgruppen moral/intellectual/historical/legal prob.
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I cannot actually see anyone rational executing the order. But, as I said, a rogue actor or two.
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
There is the "own doorstep" as opposed to a country far, far away issue. Plus a complete rewrite of the RoE to permit live fire on civilians in peacetime
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I once argued the absence of grundnorms in the LoAC in the Court of Appeal - Krotov v SSHD
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This comes back to the post GW1 debate of "when is a war not a war" - there it surfaced in relation to aircraft and insurance disputes
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The two Venn circles overlap here. That said, if the Law of Armed Conflict tells us anything, it tells you can find a rogue actor if you look hard enough
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
True but once they all got Interpol red flagged, travel would be interesting
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
So all in all a bit like fish in a barrel as opposed to refugees in a boat. But given Jenrick's track record of respect for the rule of law and overall intelligence, not really surprising...
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Doesn't work. 1. Immunity would be confined to territorial waters. Any fire on the high seas would not be immune 2. Even in territorial waters, any country with which the person murdered had a connection could bring its own cases against all those concerned. 3. ICC 4. Rogue state & reciprocity 2/2
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Here is a quick list of the basic legal problems with Jenrick's shoot to kill policy. 1. Jenrick advocating violent crime. That is a crime. 2. Illegal orders. 3. Al Skeini. Assume a Reform government went all in and granted automatic immunity to the shooters & assume Reform could find the people 1/2
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Much easier than that. Interpol red flag plus extradition
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I am fully aware of that. Might want to check on some of my writing and cases....
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Straightforward application of Al Skeini would have thought
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
There would be a very long judicial review queue
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This is also known as the impunity problem. The US actually has a federal statute to deal with rogue military actions - but no chance of that pre 3/11.
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Plus Jenrick has just advocated commission of a serious crime which is also in and of itself a serious crime... #justsaying
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
It's piracy with violence. Used to carry the death penalty now merely life in prison
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Violations of international humanitarian law or public international law takes longer to type!
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Eventually if the country does not mend its ways, it gets, as they say, messy
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
And the life sentence for piracy with violence even longer
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Those are war crimes and illegal orders.
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Particularly as the waging of aggressive war is a war crime which a fortiori assumes no legitimate war....
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
No, but there's a gif
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Minions Ready
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Didn't May explicitly take interference in the referendum out of remit?
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Somehow I didn’t have DR as gilet person on my 2026 bingo card
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Next 2 HK HCJ sitting slots now confirmed...
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Man who dumped his security detail post NATO conference discussing Russian attack on UK soil to attend an FSB Bunga Bunga party at an ex FSB officer’s Italian Home where he got very, very smashed. That one?
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Fellowship of the Ringpiece
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
You know you’re back in Torridon and not HK when… you’re repairing a path, a bit of stone shrapnel hits you in the face and you figure that you might as well fix it here as by the time you have got to A&E and waited it will have pretty much stopped bleeding and there is little they can do
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It’s a 4x4
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