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Timestamp: 2019-04-24 06:03:05+00:00

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Sean specialises in public international law, international arbitration (particularly investor-State arbitration) and public law.
Sean is recommended by the legal directories as “a top choice for international arbitration and public international law”, “absolutely fantastic for public international law” and as “extremely creative” (see “Recommendations” below). He is also listed in Who’s Who Global as a “future leader” in international arbitration.
Sean was appointed Junior Counsel to the Crown (the Attorney General’s Public International Law C Panel) in 2017.
Sean advises regularly on international law matters, including questions concerning treaty interpretation, State immunity, investment protection, sanctions, human rights, international humanitarian law and dispute settlement procedures.
Sean has experience of working in a leading boutique law firm, Government (as an FCO assistant legal advisor) and international organisations (European Court of Human Rights, stagiaire). Sean is comfortable working as a member of a counsel team, sole junior to a leader and as sole counsel.
He previously held academic positions as a Visiting Scholar (EALS) at Harvard Law School, a Bye Fellow and College Lecturer in Law at Downing College, Cambridge and Adjunct Professor in Public International Law at Pepperdine University School of Law.
Sean was a member of the legal panel for the report of the inquiry into protecting children in conflict and a contributor to the report, Protecting Children in Armed Conflict (Hart, 2018).
Singapore Court of Appeal: Kingdom of Lesotho v. Swissbourgh Diamond Mines HC/OS 492/2016. Acting for Lesotho before the Singapore High Court and Court of Appeal (non-admitted) with respect to proceedings challenging an arbitral award rendered by an investor-State tribunal concerning alleged expropriation of mining rights arising from Lesotho’s participation in the decision-making of an international organisation (led by Sam Wordsworth QC).
Alghanim v. Jordan, ICSID Case No. ARB/13/38, successfully acted for Jordan in a dispute under a BIT regarding taxation of a telecoms investor (led by Sam Wordsworth QC); instructed in annulment.
Various cases with Volterra Fietta including successfully acting for the Claimant in Karmer v. Georgia, ICSID Case No. ARB/08/19, a dispute under a BIT regarding interference with construction hospitality projects.
Annex VII UNCLOS arbitration: Mauritius v. United Kingdom (Marine Protected Area of the British Indian Ocean Territory), advising the UK.
Sean is a member of the team analysing the jurisdictional decisions of investor-State arbitration tribunals for InvestmentClaims.com (a leading OUP database). He is a former editor of the Young ICCA Blog.
Sean is instructed regularly by various Governments and has appeared as counsel before the International Court of Justice, the UK Supreme Court and investor-State arbitration tribunals.
ICJ: Certain Iranian Assets (Iran v. USA), Preliminary Objections (counsel and advocate for Iran).
ICJ: Alleged Violations of the 1955 Treaty of Amity, Economic Relations, and Consular Rights (Iran v. USA), Provisional Measures (counsel and advocate for Iran).
ICJ: Application of the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism and of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (Ukraine v. Russian Federation), Provisional Measures (counsel for Russia).
UKSC: Rahmatullah (No 2) v. Ministry of Defence  UKSC 1. Successfully acted for the Government Appellants in striking out tort claims challenging legality of detention of suspected insurgents in Afghanistan and Iraq on the ground of the Crown act of state doctrine. Led by James Eadie QC, Karen Steyn QC and Sam Wordsworth QC.
UKSC: Belhaj and anor v. Straw and Ors  UKSC 3. Acted for the Government in its appeal on state immunity and foreign act of state. Concerned whether claims of complicity in unlawful detention and mistreatment overseas at the hands of foreign state officials are properly triable in the English courts. Sole junior led by Rory Philips QC, Sam Wordsworth QC and Karen Steyn QC.
International as amicus curiae in the Al Bashir head of state immunity case concerning South Africa’s failure to arrest President Al Bashir and surrender him to the ICC. Appeal withdrawn by South Africa following its withdrawal from the Rome Statute of the ICC. Led by Sudhanshu Swaroop QC.
Lysongo v. FCO and Cameroon  EWHC 2955 (QB). Successfully acted for the FCO in securing strike out on grounds of non-justiciability of unincorporated treaties, UN immunity, state immunity, Crown act of state and foreign act of state.
Rahmatullah (No 2) v. Ministry of Defence  UKSC 1. Successfully acted for the Government Appellants in striking out tort claims challenging legality of detention of suspected insurgents in Afghanistan and Iraq on the ground of the Crown act of state doctrine. Led by James Eadie QC, Karen Steyn QC and Sam Wordsworth QC.
Belhaj and anor v. Straw and Ors  UKSC 3. Acted for the Government in its appeal on state immunity and foreign act of state. Concerned whether claims of complicity in unlawful detention and mistreatment overseas at the hands of foreign state officials are properly triable in the English courts. Sole junior led by Rory Philips QC, Sam Wordsworth QC and Karen Steyn QC.
X and Commissioner of the Police of the Metropolis v. Z (Children)  EWCA Civ 34. Successfully acted for the MPS in the first case considering police handling of DNA data since Marper v UK (led by Anya Proops).
R (Governing Body of Uplands Junior School) v Leicester City Council  EWHC 4128 (Admin);  ELR 157, QBD. Successfully acted for the Council in the first case considering the exercise of school intervention powers (led by Clive Sheldon QC).
He is a member of ALBA and previously volunteered with Liberty’s advice and information department.
Sean has particular experience of employment disputes which raise questions of private international law, human rights and International Labour Organization standards. He writes the chapter on ‘Foreign Employees’ in Tolley’s Employment Law Handbook .
Member of the Legal Panel for Legal Report for the Inquiry on Protecting Children in Conflict (forthcoming under the lead authorship of Shaheed Fatima QC).
‘Armed Drones and Judicial Review’, PLP Judicial Review Conference, October 2016.
‘When should there be a duty to investigate UK military action abroad’, Public Law Project conference on Inquiries, Investigations and the Law, 21 April 2016.
‘Recent Developments: International Law in the UK Courts’, Government Legal Service International Law Conference, 14 October 2015.
‘International Law in Domestic Courts’, lecture presented to the Government Legal Service’s inaugural International Law Course, 9 June 2015.
‘Targeting and Detention in Non-International Armed Conflict: Serdar Mohammed and the Limits of Human Rights Convergence’, 91 International Law Studies (2015) 60-118 (with Sari).
Several short pieces on EJIL:Talk!, the Blog of the European Journal of International Law (2015).
Several case comments and analysis for International Law in Domestic Courts, an online database run by Oxford University Press.
Chapter on ‘Foreign Employees’ in Tolley’s Employment Handbook 2015 (29 ed).
paper presented at the 2014 ILA British Branch Spring Conference, 24 May 2014.
Case note published in the European Procurement and Public Private Partnership Law Review (2014).
Project for Asian and International Relations, 2012 Asia Conference (24-28 August 2012, Th Taipei).
Law School, EALS Seminar, May 2012.
Lecture on ‘International Boundary Law’, University of London, 2011.
‘Continuity and Change: Obama on Human Rights’, The World Today, January 2011.
summary of a joint Chatham House and Atlantic Council of the United States workshop held on 10-11 November 2010.
Highest examination results in the LL.M in International Dispute Settlement, International Commercial Litigation and International Human Rights.
International law: ESIL, ILA (British Branch).
International arbitration: ICC Young Arbitrators Forum, LCIA Young International Arbitrators Group, Young ICSID, Young ICCA, ICDR Young & International.
Public law: Human Rights Lawyers Association, Administrative Law Bar Association.

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