Despite rejecting this claim on the basis that the tower is an artificial structure, the British government has never attempted to evict the Sealanders, and a court in 1968 confirmed that at that point, the tower was outside British jurisdiction.
Malia rexeitar esta reclamación, sobre a base de que a torre é unha estrutura artificial, o Goberno Británico nunca intentou desaloxar os seus escasos habitantes, e un tribunal determinou en 1968 que a torre estaba fóra da xurisdición británica.