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This week, Shell will try to convince Dutch courts to repeal a historic climate ruling that ordered the fossil fuel giant to slash its greenhouse gas emissions. In 2021, a landmark climate case saw The Hague order Shell to cut its carbon emissions by 45 per cent by 2030 compared to 2019, aiming to make the company align its business plans with Paris Agreement goals. The ruling included both Shell’s own emissions and so-called Scope 3 emissions produced by consumers using its products - like those from people driving with Shell petrol in their cars. New study: Climate change has made heat waves...
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UK climate protesters charged with criminal damage could have their last legal defence removed if the government gets its way in a significant court case this week. Attorney general Victoria Prentis KC, who represents the government, has asked the Court of Appeal to review whether activists can continue using a defence known as ‘belief in consent’. Some campaigners on trial have successfully argued that a property owner wouldn’t mind the damage caused to their building in a nonviolent action, if they were aware of the full extent of the climate crisis. Five women charged with criminal damage a...
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London (AFP) - The US government won an appeal Friday against a UK court ruling that had blocked extraditing Julian Assange, paving the way for the WikiLeaks founder to be sent from Britain. The decision by the High Court in London could now see the extradition referred to interior minister Priti Patel for final approval, but Assange's legal team immediately said it will ask the UK Supreme Court to intervene. The US challenged a January decision by a British magistrates' court that it would be "oppressive" to extradite the 50-year-old Australian to the US justice system due to his mental heal...
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London (AFP) - Meghan Markle on Thursday called for a reform of tabloid newspaper culture after winning a second court victory against a British newspaper group for breaching her privacy. But Associated Newspapers indicated her high-profile win may not be the end of the matter, as it said it may now take the case to the country's highest court. Three judges at the Court of Appeal in London threw out the news group's challenge to a February ruling in the High Court over the publication in 2019 in the Mail on Sunday of a letter she wrote to her estranged father. The Duchess of Sussex, who is mar...
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London (AFP) - A UK court will rule on Thursday on a newspaper group's appeal against a previous judgement that it breached Meghan Markle's privacy by publishing extracts of a letter to her estranged father. In a long-running legal battle, Associated Newspapers, which publishes the Mail on Sunday, Daily Mail and MailOnline, is appealing against a lower High Court decision that the letter deserved privacy protections. A judge in February ruled that extracts of the 2018 letter from the Duchess of Sussex published by the group the following year were "manifestly excessive and... unlawful". The ju...
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London (AFP) - The United States sought to assure a British court Wednesday that it would not hold Julian Assange at a supermax prison, seeking to overturn a block on his extradition in order to put him on trial for espionage. The WikiLeaks founder risks up to 175 years in jail if he is sent to the US and convicted. But a British judge blocked his extradition on the grounds that he was at serious risk of suicide and that his mental health would probably deteriorate in the US penal system. At the start of a two-day appeal hearing in London, the US government asked Britain's High Court to overtu...
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London (AFP) - The US government will on Wednesday appeal against a British judge's decision to block the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to face trial for publishing military secrets. At a two-day hearing, Washington will ask the High Court to overturn District Judge Vanessa Baraitser's January ruling that Assange is a serious suicide threat if extradited across the Atlantic. The United States has said it was "extremely disappointed" at her decision, arguing the judge "didn't appreciate the weight" of expert evidence that said Assange was not at risk of suicide. Its lawyers ha...
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London (AFP) - A British judge on Wednesday gave the US government extra grounds to appeal a refusal to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, after it argued the initial ruling relied on a witness who misled court. District Judge Vanessa Baraitser in January refused to grant a request by Washington for Assange to face trial in the United States on spying charges, ruling he was at serious risk of suicide. But lawyer Clair Dobbin, representing the US government which is appealing the decision, said the judge "didn't appreciate the weight" of expert evidence that concluded Assange was not a...
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London (AFP) - Lawyers for the US government on Wednesday criticised a British judge for blocking the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, questioning evidence about his mental health and accusing an expert witness of misleading the court. Judge Vanessa Baraitser in January refused to grant a request by Washington for Assange to face trial in the United States on spying charges, ruling he was at serious risk of suicide. But lawyer Clair Dobbin, representing the US government which is appealing the decision, said the judge "didn't appreciate the weight" of expert evidence that concl...
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New York (AFP) - Jailed filmmaker Harvey Weinstein filed a long-expected appeal on his rape and sexual assault convictions Monday, kick-starting an attempt to have his 23-year prison sentence quashed. Lawyers for Weinstein, found guilty last year in a landmark verdict for the #MeToo movement, said in a New York court filing that the "Pulp Fiction" producer was denied a fair trial. They argue that several women who had accused Weinstein of sexual assault, but whose allegations were not included in the charges, should not have been allowed to testify as so-called prior bad acts witnesses. "The A...
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