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Entries in Julian Assange (5)

Wednesday
Jul252012

Julian & Julian

Julian Burnside QC gets the bums rush ... Response from attorney general to questions about US investigations and possible extradition of Julian Assange ... Government reply leaves open the equal possibilities that Canberra knows everything or it knows nothing ... It is certainly doing nothing … Polly Peck reports 

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Monday
Jul162012

The Assange case: a human rights perspective 

Stephen Keim and Benedict Coyne, from Australian Lawyers for Human Rights, dissect the UK Supreme Court's decision which prompted Julian Assange to seek asylum in Ecuador ... Independent safeguard not discovered in the phrase "judicial authority" 

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Wednesday
Feb082012

Life at the top

Judicial style ... The genteel, pukkah approach of the UK Supreme Court or the Assyrian assaults of the High Court ... At least in Australia you get a sense of where to pitch an argument ... Please welcome Abel Magwitch to Justinian's expanding fold of analysts and commentators 

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Tuesday
Feb152011

Operation Fundamental Justice

WikiLeaks and espionage ... First birthday for Citizens United ... Extra curricula political activities haunt Justices Scalia and Thomas ... Local district courts riven by politics ... Our Man in Washington reports 

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Tuesday
Jan182011

Loose in the USA

Stitching-up Assange ... Ninth anniversary of Guantánamo ... More Gitmo-related cases head for the Supreme Court ... Trying to fathom the meaning of "material support" ... Not all terrorist organisations are opposed by Republicans ... Washing Dick Cheney's dirty linen ... Roger Fitch reports from Washington

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