Cú Chulainn

Kenneth you cannot possibly be that ingenuous.

There are about 16,00 Barristers in England and Wales, with London only a 3 hour flight to Gibraltar. Maybe Iran needs to hire better lawyers ?

that must be it, all that's needed is better lawyers. Her Majesty's Realm dispenses nothing but justice, as humanity has learned over centuries. @crimesofbrits @Rasputinish

There is Due Process. There would have been an Order/Writ for the Seizure and a Warrant Issued. A Show Cause Hearing could be requested by the Owners to contest the Order and the Warrant.

In reality there was a request/order from Washington, to give an answer to the downed drone.

No, that's just Pure Speculation. In reality it is a Legal Dispute that will be resolved in the Courts, unless Iran takes FM Jeremy Hunt's generous offer and guarantees that the ship will not be going to Syria.

What a moron. Legal dispute when special forces were flown from UK to seize a tanker "on suspicion" it was headed for a certain country, citing sanctions that the EU has since pointed out did not apply - something the other hypocrites knew just as well as you.

Carl Bildt said outright that there are no such sanctions as were cited by UK/Gibraltar and even if they were the EU does not enforce them like this -"the US does that". The UK of course has centuries of experience starving entire nations, with Holocaust size famines as result.