;-). Liz Truss, then Justice Secretary, advised the Queen to appoint Lady Arbuthnot in October 2016. This cookie tracks the advertisement report which helps us to improve the marketing activity. Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns. Lord Arbuthnot was from 2016-17 a director of SC Strategy, a consultancy created by Sir John Scarlett, the former head of MI6 who had been behind the dodgy dossier used by Tony Blair to push for war with Iraq. Responding to Declassifieds Freedom of Information request for communications between the minister and Tertulias or an itinerary for the Bilbao meeting, DEFRA responded: Following a search of our paper and electronic records, we have established that the informationyou have requested is not held by DEFRA. It is unclear if Truss used a private email to organise the visit. This page was last edited on 10 April 2020, at 18:40. to a house in Higham, a small village with 140 people, also in Suffolk. In a Jan. 4 ruling, the judge, Vanessa Baraitser, said, "I find that the mental condition of Mr. Assange is such that it would be oppressive to extradite him to the United States of America.". This cookie helps to categorise the users interest and to create profiles in terms of resales of targeted marketing. Then foreign minister Tobias Ellwood spoke at the forum while former foreign secretary Jack Straw, who is a co-chair of Tatlidil, presided over one of the discussions. In 2017, the address for Tertulias changed again to a house which is divided into three flats in Battersea, south London. A BELIEF that a (FOIA) request would exceed an amount is sufficient to deny a request is a Fuccillo (HUGE) size loophole to deny revealing and biased nature of a corrupt system. The main purpose of this cookie is targeting, advertesing and effective marketing. our #1 bilateral forum between the UK and Spain. This cookie is set by Segment.io to check the number of ew and returning visitors to the website. The Magazine Basic Theme by bavotasan.com. Lord Arbuthnot was from 2016-17 a director of. A judiciary spokesman has. By Mark Curtis and Matt Kennard District Judge Vanessa Baraitser who is still overseen by Lady Arbuthnot will rule on the extradition proceedings which begin on 25 February. Assange denied permission to challenge extradition, Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules, US begins legal appeal to extradite Assange, Xi Jinping's power grab - and why it matters, Street fighting in Bakhmut but Russia not in control, Russian minister laughed at for Ukraine war claims. Click here to see other benefits and to sign-up to our reader community supporting quality, independent journalism. The cookie is set by Krux Digital under the domain krxd.net. Further documents from the Iraq war revealed that 66,000 civilians had been killed - more than previously reported. Julian Assange is being prosecuted and punished for his political opinions (s.81(a) of the Extradition Act); Julian Assange is being prosecuted for protected speech (Article 10). The extradition request and its surrounding circumstances constitute an abuse of process. I suspect she shouts a lot on trains. Kathryn Howarth succeeds in obtaining the discharge of a Romanian EAW before District Judge Baraitser. I suspect it is. The chief magistrate, however, is aware of the judicial conduct guidance that advises on avoiding the perception of bias and is not hearing the case. And yet, a large number of the UK population think everything is hunky dory ! The only known photograph of district judge Vanessa Baraitser who will rule on Julian Assanges extradition to the U.K. in the public domain. He was not, he suggested diffidently, quite sure that it was correct that it required bail for Julian to be in the body of the court, or that being in the body of the court accompanied by security officers meant that a prisoner was no longer in custody. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. The District Judge found that extradition would be a disproportionate interference with Ms Gebhardts and her daughters family rights, hXXps://www.5sah.co.uk/news-and-events/news/2016-01-22/extradition-case-discharged. Vanessa is a local magistrates' Court Judge, and was elevated to such dizzy heights on 13th October 2011. 10 December 2021:The decision to discharge the extradition request is overturned by the High Court due to the United States Government issuing so-called diplomatic assurances to the UK Government. This cookie is used for optmizing the advertisement on the website more relevant by analysing the user behaviour and interaction with the website. This cookie is set by Youtube. Yes, the UK justice system has been maliciously subverted to serve the interests of the likes of Patel and the Arbuthnots. This cookie tracks anonymous information on how visitors use the website. US appeals UK judge's refusal to permit Assange extradition The only picture we have of Judge Baraitser herself is of her bum getting on a bike after the day's proceedings. Two years before, Truss who is now Trade Secretary and Lady Arbuthnot both attended an off-the-record two-day meeting in Bilbao, Spain. Julian Assange Files his Perfected Grounds of Appeal Lord Arbuthnot can be seen standing next to her, likely having just introduced his fellow Conservative MP. District Judge Vanessa Baraitser who is still overseen by Lady Arbuthnot will rule on the extradition proceedings which begin on 25 . We the People: Screwed, Blued and Tattooed! We need to know that to properly assess Baraitser. From: bonnieweinstein <giobon@xxxxxxxxxxx>; To: BAUAW <bauaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2023 08:30:18 -0800; SHUT DOWN DRONE WARFARESpring Action Week: April 15 - 22, 2023Holloman AFB, Southern New Mexico Co-sponsored by CODEPINK & Ban Killer Drones Mark your calendars & Join Us! According to a report on Friday in the South African-based Daily Maverick, Lady Emma Arbuthnot attended, along with her husband Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom, all-expenses-paid secretive gatherings of. The Perfected Grounds of Appeal contain the arguments on which Julian Assange intends to challenge District Judge Vanessa Baraitsers decision of 4 January 2021, and introduces significant new evidence that has developed since that ruling. The Assange case is tantamount to the UK and US rule of law killing itself in a thousand tiny cuts. 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"Baraitser did not state whether it was a criminal offence to publish a photograph taken in a courtroom (or indeed to attempt to publish a photograph taken in a courtroom). "Fitzgerald then continued to say that international jurisprudence had accepted for a century or more that you did not extradite political offenders. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. Although having attended the annual event regularly since 2000, this was the first time Lord Arbuthnot recorded in his parliamentary register of interests the attendance of his wife. Her previous rulings on Assange cannot be revisited by the defence when she fails to declare a conflict of interest. was irregular, dismissing Assanges fears of US extradition and the findings of the UN. The pure political offence and the relative political offence. The cookie is set by Segment.io and is used to analyze how you use the website. , a media organisation investigating UK foreign, military and intelligence policies. Assanges lawyers had applied to have his British arrest warrant withdrawn. District judge Vanessa Baraitser rules that extradition is barred under the 2003 Extradition Act because it is "opressive" (s.91). All previous Extradition Acts had excluded extradition for political offences, so it must be the intention of the sovereign parliament that political offenders can now be extradited. The UK delegation to the 2014 meeting in Istanbul was, in Edinburgh the previous year. However, you may visit "Cookie Settings" to provide a controlled consent. 20 April 2022:The Magistrate issues the extradition order, which is sent to Home Secretary Priti Patel for approval. hXXps://www.casemine.com/judgement/uk/5ca6e7d12c94e01e252696b6. Issues at the extradition hearing included section 2, Article 3 (prison conditions concerning the conditions in Focsani prison) and Article 8. The sparse information available on the meeting, which largely comes from social media, suggests that Lady Arbuthnot may not have attended the discussions since there was a separate spouses/partners programme involving local visits. (Photo: Matt Kennard). Interesting to note date of appointment is in 2011. She also seemed in her anger to be making the unfounded assumption that whoever took the photo from the public gallery on Tuesday was still there on Wednesday; I suspect not. The High Court rejects the United States Governments arguments that the district judge erred in her findings. She said Assange would be kept in custody, ahead of an appeal from the US. There is no default anonymity of the names of cases, unless children are involved or other certain limited circumstances, nor the judges who rule on them. This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. Follow Declassified on twitter at @DeclassifiedUK. The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". It describes its objectives as facilitating and strengthen [sic] relations between the Republic of Turkey and the United Kingdom at the level of government, diplomacy, business, academia and media. District judge Vanessa Baraitser rules that extradition is barred under the 2003 Extradition Act because it is "opressive" (s.91). A list of all the extradition cases District Judge Vanessa Baraitser has ruled on that are publicly available. In one case, Baraitsers decision to extradite was overturned because the appeal judge attached considerable weight to the likely impact of extradition upon the health and wellbeing of the defendants wife, who will be left with very little support. The cookie is set by addthis.com to determine the usage of Addthis.com service. After Patel was sacked, self-described passionate Zionist Johnson accelerated his own campaign of pro-Israel advocacy in the Foreign Office in 2018. This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. But, dont put a finger in the eye of the rest of the planet and expect to be applauded for your virtuous rigor on the world stage. that the estate is owned by Sheikh Mohammed al-Makhtoum, the ruler of Dubai, one of the United Arab Emirates. The case is sent back to the Magistrates Court with instruction to issue the extradition order. This judge, Vanessa Baraitser - actually she isn't a judge at all; she's a magistrate - shocked all of us who were there. Lord Arbuthnot can be seen standing next to her, likely having just introduced his fellow Conservative MP. Although having attended the annual event regularly since 2000, this was the first time Lord Arbuthnot recorded in his parliamentary register of interests the attendance of his wife. The US and UK may not will Assange's death, but everything they are Lady Arbuthnot personally presided over Assanges case as judge from late 2017 until mid-2019, delivering two controversial rulings. Julian Assange granted permission to seek appeal against extradition to "We now come to the consideration of yesterdays legal arguments on the extradition request itself. On this occasion, the request was not blocked. The new revelations follow previous investigations by Declassified, Lady Arbuthnot received gifts and hospitality in relation to her husband from a military and cybersecurity company exposed by WikiLeaks. overwhelming evidence has emerged proving that the United States prosecution against my husband is a . This cookie is used to track how many times users see a particular advert which helps in measuring the success of the campaign and calculate the revenue generated by the campaign. "At this stage Baraitser interrupted that it was plain the intention of parliament was that there could be extradition for political offences. It can further be revealed that Lady Emma Arbuthnot was appointed Chief Magistrate in Westminster on the advice of a Conservative government minister with whom she had attended a secretive meeting organised by one of these Foreign Office partner organisations two years before. Responding to Declassifieds Freedom of Information request for communications between the minister and. Instead, the information officer asked for further clarification about the information being sought, suggesting issues such as final hearing dates, the defendants names and what the defendants were charged with. DM, Matt Kennard is head of investigations and Mark Curtis editor, of Declassified UK, a media organisation investigating UK foreign, military and intelligence policies. Julian Assange loses extradition bail bid - BBC News Both children attended the ceremony on Wednesday, along with Mr Assange's father and brother. The section 2 issue was hotly contested by counsel for the prosecution, who argued that the authority of Edutanu v Romania [2016] EWHC 124 (Admin) did not apply. Baraitser has also ruled that Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange is to remain in prison when his jail term ends because of his "history of absconding". Both children attended the ceremony on Wednesday, along with Mr Assange's father and brother. "Baraitser started to throw out jargon like a Dalek when it spins out of control. REVEALED: Chief magistrate in Assange case received fin 27-28 October 2021:US appeal hearing before the High Court Appeal. In the High Court prisoners frequently sat with their lawyers in extradition hearings, in extreme cases of violent criminals handcuffed to a security officer. Declassified has discovered that both Tertulias and Tatlidil had been managed by the same person living at the addresses given by parliamentarians. Magistrate Vanessa Baraitser had just made a ruling that the names of Julian Assange's partner and young children could be published, which she stated was in the interests of "open justice." Holograms have more empathy. As prefigured yesterday by Magistrate Baraitser, the prosecution is arguing that Article 4.1 of the UK/US extradition treaty has no force in law. Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. Two months later, on April 29, 2020, an information officer at the HM Courts and Tribunals Service responded that it could confirm that it held some of the information that you have requested. Tertulias, an annual forum held for political and corporate leaders in the UK and Spain, is regarded by the UK Foreign Office as one of its partnerships.