Arwu@programming.dev to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 7 hours agoFirms help migrants pose as artists and tech experts for 'Global Talent' visas, BBC findsplus-squarewww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down14
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Arwu@programming.dev to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 7 hours agoBrand will face 'hell on earth' in Wandsworth prison, says former inmateplus-squarewww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down12
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minus-squareArwu@programming.devtoUnited Kingdom@feddit.uk•In 2014, a massage therapist called Sylvie Berki accused Russell Brand of assaulting her. The High Court issued a secret injunction that silenced her for the rest of her life.linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up48arrow-down2·edit-26 days agoShe had no lawyer. No trial. Yet she was silenced for life - even barred from speaking to the police. It looks like the intention was then to bankrupt Ms Berki. The judge had mentioned she had no money, but the order says: You’d expect the judgment would contain the discussion of whether these restrictions were necessary and proportionate (or even lawful). It does not. A lawyer would have raised these points. Ms Berki had no lawyer. linkfedilink
She had no lawyer. No trial. Yet she was silenced for life - even barred from speaking to the police.
It looks like the intention was then to bankrupt Ms Berki.
The judge had mentioned she had no money, but the order says:
You’d expect the judgment would contain the discussion of whether these restrictions were necessary and proportionate (or even lawful).
It does not.
A lawyer would have raised these points. Ms Berki had no lawyer.