Lawfare
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| Interest of | • Brooke Goldstein • Mikhail Lesin • Silvina Romano |
Lawfare is the use of the legal systems and institutions to politically persecute opponents. Apart from imprisonment, the goal can be to delegitimize them in with a propaganda victory in public opinion, bar them from elections, waste their time and money, scare or warn them, or psychologically discourage them.
It is a common method of persecution, and used all over the world. Because the judicial system is murky and often recruits from and identifies with the establishment, lawfare is at tool used very open to exploitation by deep state interests.
United Kingdom
Examples from the UK include Julian Assange and Craig Murray, but they are by no means the only ones.
An example
| Page name | Description |
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| Foreign Corrupt Practices Act | From careful beginnings has become a major tool of statecraft |
Related Quotation
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
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| Silvina Romano | “Lawfare is a political war through the courts, which uses legal tools improperly for political persecution, which uses the law as a weapon to destroy the adversary. Lawfare operates from high places through a judicial apparatus that rises above the Legislative and Executive Power, expanding the margin of maneuver and power of the judges, paving the way for a growing “juristocracy”.” | Silvina Romano | December 2020 |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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| Document:Lawyers For Israel Oppose Conscience | blog post | 20 May 2023 | Craig Murray | Convictions based on “intent” to do something you have not actually done, are generally dubious. The Shenstone defendants have been told by Judge Chambers they will get prison sentences. Expect these to be vicious. |
| Document:What is UK Lawyers for Israel’s relationship to the Israeli government | Article | 12 March 2019 | Hilary Aked | Israeli diplomat Shai Masot – who worked for the anti-BDS Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs in London – was recorded in Al Jazeera’s 2017 undercover documentary The Lobby saying of groups such as UKLFI: "It’s good to leave those organisations independent. But we help them, actually." |
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