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I'd like the press to shine a light on the lawyer who was so keen to get Sweden to pursue the case. I'm sure he prefers being nameless.
by barking 9y ago
I'd like the press to shine a light on the lawyer who was so keen to get Sweden to pursue the case. I'm sure he prefers being nameless.
- jacquesm 9y agoIt wasn't a lawyer, it was the Swedish prosecutor that did this, and it wasn't a 'he' but a 'she' (Marianne Ny). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assange_v_Swedish_Prosecution_Authority https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assange_v_Swedish_Prosecution_...
- barrkel 9y agoThat's not who the parent is talking about - who was on the UK side, the person who retired and caused their email archives to get deleted.
- jacquesm 9y agoRight, my bad. Weirdest thing though, you'd think that they would at least preserve any and all emails related to a case that is so strongly in the public eye. And for the longest time the UK was if not outright promoting the idea that the Swedes wanted the case to be continued definitely not denying that and claiming that instead the UK was pushing things forward.
- guitarbill 9y agoOr the CPS' policy of email "retention". In this day and age, something like that cannot be allowed to happen by accident. There should be backups, and there's no reason not to keep emails he wrote in his professional capacity as a part of the judiciary. By the way, the lawyer's name is Paul Close [0], and it's shockingly difficult to find anything about him on on search engines, but more so on Google than others IMO. (Although given his age, this isn't too surprising in context to personal artefacts, but journalistically speaking it's interesting why he's mentioned so little.) [0] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/oct/19/julian-assange-lawyers-may-launch-new-appeal-emails https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/oct/19/julian-assange...