7. Julian Assange: Jurisdiction, Extradition and Human Rights

This week host Tamsin Phillipa Paige and guest Holly Cullen discuss the long and tortuous history of attempts to extradite Wikileaks founder Julian Assange from the UK to the USA on espionage charges.
Here are Holly's recommendations for further reading:
Suzanne Akila, 'Networks of Protection' in Holly Cullen, Joanna Harrington and Catherine Renshaw, eds., Experts, Networks and International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2017) 21.
Select Articles from The Conversation on legal issues relating to Assange:
'Julian Assange is free, but curly legal questions about his case remain', The Conversation, 26 June 2024.
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'Julian Assange plea deal: what does it mean for the Wikileaks founder and what happens now?', The Conversation, 25 June 2024.
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'Julian Assange's appeal to avoid extradition will go ahead. It could be legally groundbreaking', The Conversation, 20 May 2024.
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'Explainer: what charges does Julian Assange face, and what's likely to happen next?', The Conversation, 12 April 2019.
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'UN decision is not "the end of the road" that Assange claims it is', The Conversation, 6 February 2016.
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Music: Sam Barsh, Oils of Au Lait

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Hi I am a NZ barrister, working in the civil rights/judicial review area and have run one extradition case. I am very sympathetic towards Mr Assange but don't understand how he got another bite at the cherry. From this podcast I know what I didn't know before, that a new cause of action was filed. However in NZ this would be very hard to do, as one is expected to put all issues at large forward in a proceeding and it is very hard to get another bite of the cherry. Moreover, all the detriment mentioned in the podcast, as forming a basis for the new claim, must have been detriments previously raised in opposition to extradition.Could you plse tell me, how it was possible to file a new proceeding seeking the same remedy, especially if the same detriment is in issue what is the basis of the bew claim. Moreover, how can a legal issue, such as free speech, have any bearing, as my understanding is that opposition to extradition does not engage legal issues as such but whether they will get an equivalent hearing in the jurisdiction sought to be extradited to.