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Julian Assange Extradition Trial, London
Anna Ardin, Julian Assange and Sofia Wilen
The next court instalment will be taking place for half a day at Belmarsh Magistrates court,
starting at 10.30 am on Friday,11 February for the presentation of closing arguments.
One Click will be reporting accordingly.
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1. The Tweets, The Hacks & The UK Courts
Lawyer Joshua Rosenberg: Twitter has become a form of public broadcasting
The UK establishment is much debating precisely who should be allowed to tweet from court. Will the "trained" corporate media press pass hacks get the exclusive or will bloggers and social commentators be allowed to join in tweeting too? Moreover, are the embedded hacks really so on the ball with legality that all others should be excluded? Hmm... At Julian Assange's third hearing on 16 December, Mr Justice Ouseley ruled that tweeting was not to take place in the High Court. End of. Verboten. No tweets. And so what did those "trained" hacks immediately do? They tweeted the court ban right around the world thus performing the quickest EVER contempt of court in the history of justice. Twitter court reporting is here to stay. For everyone. Not just the legally dodgy Pavlov dogs corporate media.
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Related Links:
* The Twitter era of court reporting is here, despite the risk of prejudice
Joshua Rosenberg, The Guardian
* A Consultation on the Use of Live, Text-Based Forms of Communications from Court for the Purposes of Fair and Accurate Reporting
Lord Chief Justice Of England And Wales
2. More USA Doctors Questioning 'Shaken-Baby Syndrome'
For years, cases involving shaken-baby syndrome were often open-and-shut — with the last person to care for the child labeled the abuser. But Slate editor Emily Bazelon reports that a growing number of doctors say the syndrome could have alternate explanations. In 1993, forensic pathologist Robert Huntington testified that 7-month-old Natalie Beard showed the characteristic symptoms of a shaken-baby, and given the timing, her caregiver, Audrey Edmunds, had to be responsible for her death. Ten years later, Huntington said in a retrial, he was no longer comfortable with that verdict, that other things could explain the subdural bleeding, retinal hemorrhaging and brain swelling, and that new research also throws doubt on the timing of the injury. In last week's edition of The New York Times Magazine, senior Slate editor Emily Bazelon reported that shaken-baby cases may no longer be as clear cut as previously believed, and that a fierce debate is underw ay.
Neal Conan - Host, NPR
Related Links:
* Today’s Shaken Baby Syndrome Story & Metropolitan Police Witness Interference
Lisa Blakemore Brown, Psychologist
* Metropolitan Police Accused Of Trying To Campaign Against Shaken Baby Witnesses
Andrew Hosken, BBC Radio 4 Programme
3. Pfizer Will Pay $330M To Settle Prempro HRT Breast Cancer Cases
Pfizer has agreed to pay about $330 million to settle more than 2,200 lawsuits charging its Prempro hormone replacement therapy caused women to develop breast cancer, embracing a strategy used by several other drugmakers to cap the cost of growing product-liability litigation that can worry investors. The cases settled for an average of about $150,000, according to Bloomberg News, which first reported the settlement. The move came after a Pennsylvania appeals court reinstated $1.7 million in compensatory damages and $8.6 million in punitive damages against Pfizer in a lawsuit filed by an Arkansas woman, who alleged its Wyeth unit failed to warn that Prempro could cause her to develop breast cancer. For those keeping score, Pfizer has now lost eight of 15 Prempro cases that were decided by juries since trials began five years ago.
Ed Silverman, Pharmalot
4. Assemblywoman Speaks: Vaccinations - Let Parents Make The Choice
The young daughter of the woman calling my office had been given her shots for school, had a reaction, and then spent months in the hospital recovering from paralysis. Now, her son was to get the same shots or he wouldn’t be allowed in school. Despite the family history, the son couldn’t get a medical exemption because New Jersey’s law is extremely narrow. The son was terrified. The mother was traumatized and angry that the state was giving her no options. The family was still recovering financially from the daughter’s hospitalization and didn’t want to risk having the same thing happen to their son. We know that some children have adverse reactions to vaccines. We just don’t know why. Acknowledging the inherent risk, the federal government established a National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program and has awarded more than $2 billion dollars in claims since 1990. Until such time as science discovers what makes these ch ildren more at risk than others, their parents should be allowed the right to protect their children through a conscientious objection.
Charlotte Vandervalk, NorthJersey.com
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