Lewis says that the prosecution has no issue with Assange sitting in the well of the court with security officers on either side, but that they will not agree to him being released from custody.— Mac William Bishop (@MacWBishop) February 26, 2020
Lewis, Fitzgerald and Baraitser agree that they will take a night to consider how to proceed with regards to Assange staying in the dock, or sitting beside his defense attorneys in the “well of the court.”— Mac William Bishop (@MacWBishop) February 26, 2020
After the brief burst of relative drama regarding Assange’s ability to communicate with his attorneys, we carry on with Lewis belaboring rather dry points of law with regard to the relationship between international treaties and English domestic law.— Mac William Bishop (@MacWBishop) February 26, 2020
The defense is trying to get a non-established right in through the back door, by attempting to create that right using the guise of “abuse of process,” Lewis is arguing, saying that if you incorporate a right using an unincorporated treaty, you deny Parliament’s sovereignty.— Mac William Bishop (@MacWBishop) February 26, 2020