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jackofkent.com is a personal blog at jackofkent.com about politics and philosophy. Since 2012, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Assange, the law of limitation, and the next eight days”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (13) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jack of Kent, a UK legal blog, for detailed explanations of the Assange sexual offence allegations, the Swedish and UK legal issues, and the myth around Magna Carta.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 13 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /2012/06/assange-would-the-rape-allegation-also-be-rape-under-english-law/4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2012-08-19
- Assange, the law of limitation, and the next eight days3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-08-11
- /2012/09/the-detail-of-the-accusations-against-assange/3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-07-05
What Hacker News says?
> This is a strange case. Assange is accused of "non- > consensual behaviour within consensual sexual > encounters." This crime/law unique to Sweden He's accused of rape. There is a good summary: http://jackofkent.com/2012/06/assange-would-the-rape-allegat...
Comment linking /2012/06/assange-would-the-rape-allegation-also-be-rape-under-english-law/
on “Julian Assange case: Sweden offers to question him in UK”Submitted Osborne’s National Spider Plan – Replacing “cyber” with “spider” in a gov speech as a story · 104 points
HN discussion>Sweden can absolutely charge and try people in absentia Perhaps, but that is their prerogative. It's not as if Assange has a right to be charged in absentia. Trying someone in absentia is a rather unusual measure, and I'm surprised that you'd like Sweden to do this, given your concern that the case be handled in the "ordinary" fashion. >and the prosecutor could question Assange abroad and move the case beyond the "…
Comment linking /2012/06/assange-would-the-rape-allegation-also-be-rape-under-english-law/
on “Julian Assange: Why I Founded WikiLeaks”Submitted Assange, the law of limitation, and the next eight days as a story · 63 points
HN discussionThat Sweden recognise his asylum claim in Ecuador as valid, which the Swedish prosecutor does not have the legal authority to do. There is a good writeup from a British legal blogger at http://jackofkent.com/2015/08/assange-the-law-of-limitation-... It's worth picking out as well that Assange faces British legal issues from breaching his bail conditions. The bail set during his very lengthy legal process which valid…
Comment linking /2015/08/assange-the-law-of-limitation-and-the-next-eight-days/
on “Julian Assange 'disappointed' as sex assault case dropped”Submitted Was the nine-hour detention of David Miranda lawful? as a story · 10 points
HN discussion> “As a condition to let Assange be heard they [Ecuador] have demanded a special agreement in which Sweden recognizes asylum status for Assange. But the government cannot make such a commitment because it is the Migration Board which decides whether or not a person has the right to asylum.” From: http://jackofkent.com/2015/08/assange-the-law-of-limitation-... and http://www.thelocal.se/20150807/sweden-hits-out-at-il…
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on “Julian Assange 'disappointed' as sex assault case dropped”Submitted Lauri Love and the potential civil law “backdoor” for obtaining encryption keys as a story · 2 points
HN discussionEcuador was requiring that Sweden agree to something that they legally cannot agree to. Update : > “As a condition to let Assange be heard they [Ecuador] have demanded a special agreement in which Sweden recognizes asylum status for Assange. But the government cannot make such a commitment because it is the Migration Board which decides whether or not a person has the right to asylum.” From: http://jackofkent.com/20…
Comment linking /2015/08/assange-the-law-of-limitation-and-the-next-eight-days/
on “Julian Assange 'disappointed' as sex assault case dropped”Submitted Brexit negotiations resource page as a story · 1 points
HN discussion"AW", the one who claims' equal a rape offense (#4), says she was initially attracted to him through his being a public figure. From the most detailed account I've come across, including excepts of the summaries of the plaintiffs' statements from the London High Court (warning, they're fairly explicit and his alleged behavior is disgusting: http://jackofkent.com/2012/09/the-detail-of-the-accusations-... ): " In her…
Comment linking /2012/09/the-detail-of-the-accusations-against-assange/
on “Swedish woman's texts could clear Assange”And it started while she was asleep, so that conditional consent was even less relevant: http://jackofkent.com/2012/06/assange-would-the-rape-allegat... From two relevant U.K. court decisions: " [...] what is alleged here is that Mr Assange 'deliberately consummated sexual intercourse with her by improperly exploiting that she, due to sleep, was in a helpless state' " " It is clear that the allegation is that he had…
Comment linking /2012/06/assange-would-the-rape-allegation-also-be-rape-under-english-law/
on “Swedish woman's texts could clear Assange”It's rape per English law: http://jackofkent.com/2012/06/assange-would-the-rape-allegat... (That link is off of the article cited here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7988717 and by the same author.)
Comment linking /2012/06/assange-would-the-rape-allegation-also-be-rape-under-english-law/
on “Swedish woman's texts could clear Assange”Worth reposting the link from the article which explains what Assange actually did (or was alleged to have done): http://jackofkent.com/2012/09/the-detail-of-the-accusations-...
Comment linking /2012/09/the-detail-of-the-accusations-against-assange/
on “Assange, the law of limitation, and the next eight days”What's being celebrated today is not Magna Carta itself, but the myth that's grown up around it. The UK's best blogger on law, "Jack of Kent", puts it well: http://jackofkent.com/2015/06/the-meaning-of-magna-carta/
Comment linking /2015/06/the-meaning-of-magna-carta/
on “Magna Carta, Still Posing a Challenge at 800”> "While there she explain how she was half-asleep when Assange initiated" The charge is that she was asleep, not "half-asleep", and woke up when he was penetrating her. "She fell asleep, but was woken up by his penetration of her. She immediately asked if he was wearing anything. He answered to the effect that he was not. She felt it was too late and, as he was already inside her, she let him continue" http://jacko…
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on “Swedish court upholds arrest warrant for Julian Assange”This isn't only some funny "sex without a condom" case. He's charged with holding a woman down and having sex with her http://jackofkent.com/2012/09/the-detail-of-the-accusations-...
Comment linking /2012/09/the-detail-of-the-accusations-against-assange/
on “Swedish court upholds arrest warrant for Julian Assange”If you actually bothered to read the papers Assange's own legal team lodged with the English courts you'd know that both the defence and prosecution accepted what he was accused of would be rape under English law. @tgasson - unfortunately I can't reply to your next message, but with regards to links: you can view most of the case literature at BAILII and the Supreme Court website. Because Assange made numerous appea…
Comment linking /2012/06/assange-would-the-rape-allegation-also-be-rape-under-english-law/
on “Julian Assange is expected to address the world's media at 11:00pm (AEST)”
