Lawyers win right to seize Saudi assets

[CHIMO]

The court of appeal yesterday granted lawyers acting for three men who were tortured and detained in Saudi jails for more than two years permission to seize the kingdom's assets in this country, including Saudi commercial airliners.

The ruling follows a decision by the court of appeal last October giving the men the right to sue Saudi officials responsible for their torture in the British courts.

In October, the Saudi government decided it would not contest an order to pay the men's costs, yet has failed to do so. It has promised to take the case to the House of Lords.

Bindman and partners, lawyers for William Sampson, Sandy Mitchell and Les Walker, will now apply to the high court sheriff to seize sufficient commercial property to meet the costs, believed to be more than £100,000.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/saudi/story/0,11599,1485588,00.html

Wonder if the same could happen for those in the Cuban prison?

[FloridaPat]

1. Never see a dime. Bushco will stop them

[alittlelark]

2. Here in the USofA the case would have been stopped in the first court.

[CHIMO]

4. But This Case Was In The UK

And there are UK people back from Cuba.

EXCLUSIVE: British Human Rights Lawyer Gareth Peirce Says Torture "Is the Recipe for the Destruction" of International Human Rights

In a Democracy Now! exclusive, we speak with leading British human rights lawyer, Gareth Peirce. She is the lawyer for two of the four British citizens recently released from Guantanamo Bay and has represented the Birmingham Six and Guilford Four. Actress Emma Thompson played her character in the movie "In the Name of the Father." In a rare interview, Peirce says that Guantanamo Bay is evidence of "an appalling chasm...for the whole of our society morally to have fallen into."

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/01/1515244&mode=thread&tid=25

[ngGale]

3. It may not go anywhere, but it sure sounds...

like a good idea. They all need to pay, we can dream!