Legal Team | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Thu, 30 Mar 2023 18:34:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png Legal Team | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 Kim Dotcom on his bail continuance https://www.kitguru.net/channel/jon-martindale/kim-dotcom-on-his-bail-continuance/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/jon-martindale/kim-dotcom-on-his-bail-continuance/#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2014 09:43:35 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=224209 Last week saw MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom heading back to court to answer questions on whether he had breached his bail requirements, which prevent him from contacting the other defendants in his MegaUpload case. While all seemed well for him after the hearing, it was only today that he was given the final all-clear that …

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Last week saw MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom heading back to court to answer questions on whether he had breached his bail requirements, which prevent him from contacting the other defendants in his MegaUpload case. While all seemed well for him after the hearing, it was only today that he was given the final all-clear that he is allowed to remain out of jail on bail, even though he has had a few extra restrictions placed on him.

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“BREAKING NEWS: Court rules that I'm free to go home. Justice is alive in Auckland. Not so sure about Wellington,” he said on his official Twitter account shortly after the news. He later went on to say that the next big court date in his legally embattled saga, would be in Hong Kong, where MegaUpload servers were seized after his initial arrest in 2012.

“The next big court event is in Hong Kong. If we win my legal team will seek $2billion in damages for the unlawful destruction of #Megaupload,” he said.

The conspiracy theory behind this latest court action against Dotcom, is that the government (New Zealand and US) tried to catch him unaware by dragging him back to court after losing his New Zealand legal defence team. Fortunately for the internet entrepreneur, shortly before the bail hearing was due to begin, he acquired the services of barrister Ron Mansfield, who has a surprisingly snappy website for a lawyer.

Dotcom previously stated that his new legal team would be “serving empire mash and crown salad soon.” He also promised that in 2015 a new venture called #MegaNet would be created, urging”ballsy investors,” to get in touch.

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KitGuru Says: I wonder if MegaNet will be that encrypted communications system Dotcom has talked about before? 

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Kim Dotcom’s lawyers take Lawfuel Lawyers of the year https://www.kitguru.net/channel/jon-martindale/kim-dotcoms-lawyers-take-lawfuel-lawyers-of-the-year/ Fri, 13 Dec 2013 11:26:40 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=167322 While it sounds like a punchline for a joke about the worst person alive, Lawfuel has announced its winner of Lawyer of the Year, granting it not to an individual but to the entire legal team of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom. While there's a lot of people working in the background, the team captains are …

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While it sounds like a punchline for a joke about the worst person alive, Lawfuel has announced its winner of Lawyer of the Year, granting it not to an individual but to the entire legal team of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom.

While there's a lot of people working in the background, the team captains are Queen's counsel Paul Davidson, litigator William Akel and commercial Lawyer Greg Towers. While Ira Rothken, who runs the US branch of Dotcom's legal team has perhaps had a bit more publicity than these, Lawfuel believes they form the backbone of his legal counsel and therefore deserve the accolades.

Part of the reason they've been given the honour is because of the sheer scale of the case. While it boils down to one man's extradition trial, there's so many elements to it. There's whole discussions on copyright and trademark law that have been sparked by this case, as well as privacy and personal liability. International law has come into it, as has the US' leaning on foreign nations and susceptibility to lobbying from the media corporations of the world.

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Last year's winners…

On top of that, there's the fact that the New Zealand government and its intelligence agency the GCSB acted illegally by raiding his home under an invalid warrant and completed months of illegal surveillance, which resulted in the Prime Minister attempting to legalise the practice instead of clamping down on his watchdogs.

The Dotcom case has elements that effect us all and the legal team has had to keep on top of this. They've been fighting his corner since the original arrest almost two years ago, much of that time without payment since Dotcom's many millions were frozen as part of the money laundering investigation against him.

KitGuru Says: Combined with Dotcom's Robin Hood, folk hero antics, it looks like he'll be ok in the long run, but that was no small feat – even if it does look like he was innocent, the forces arrayed against him have seemed insurmountable at times. 

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