Fast lane, Slow lane, Road-Block
Assange Exclusion Clause explained
3 min. Video
Forgive the soundtrack volume. It was playing on my laptop and I was farther away from the mic.
Basic points to read first before you watch it.
2 lane highway Assange in fast lane,
then parked Scores of other EAW’s cases held in abeyance, adjourned regularly, creating a backlog in UK courts —
PARKED until Assange matter decided UK revises law in 2014 adds a clause that new law won’t be applied retrospectively
Assange is the only case that was excluded b/c it couldn’t benefit from new law retrospectively
Other emails indicate
UK Supreme Court involved in unprecedented “informal” communications which generated a lot of extra work, “non-stop” because other EAW’s were being adjourned regularly, then they would have to come up again in the UK courts… UK created a back log, parked the cases