Thanks to @ashoro.co.uk (and sister(?)) for providing this clear thread highlighting the maritime legal questions to be answered over yesterday’s actions in the English Channel yesterday.
1/23 Sorry, this will be long... There is a lot of shouting about what happened in the Channel yesterday. So I want to go back to basic law. Not immigration policies or political rhetoric. At sea, the starting point is simple: Preservation of life comes first under all maritime conventions.