The Right Honourable Ms. Goethe, 4th Circuit Judge Presiding
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Whilst you claim to be a sovereign nation, your vessels do business in and through Liberty, and while there are subject to Libertonian law and procedure. Your sovereignty is also not officially recognized by the Libertonian Government, and as such does not fall under the charter of International Law.
In the interim, I am placing a temporary ban on all CR traffic from entering Liberty and referring this matter to a colleague of mine from the Libertonian Judiciary.
In an effort to preserve the sanctity of the bench and the honourable position of the magistrates office, a new judge will be selected to handle this case.
However, my temporary ban will be passed to elements of the LPI, LN and LSF to enforce until such time as a new judge is selected to review the decision.
*bangs Gavel*
Right Honourable Ms. Goethe, 4th circuit judge Presiding
I cannot believe what I am reading.
Forced I am again to point out mistakes in your speech, judge.
While I am much curious how do unrecognized vessels pass and trade in your systems, if we are not recognized by you, how then you plan to actually sue us, if we are not recognized by your offices? Place a charge on a ghost ship? Or do you take your cognizance from those few traders that pass through your territory? On that you base your case and plan to draw us into unfair trial on Liberty grounds? Also, your recognition is not needed, as Charter do not require unanimous vote.
If you do not recognize us as a sovereign nation, nor a corporation or anything, stop attempting to sue us. Unless recognized officially, we shall not take part in actions and this trial, whilst they are only camouflage to openly attack and insult our nation.
A note - you can sue those few traders, if they broke any of your laws, but judging from what I saw so far, you would not give them any chance to defend themselves at all. I have already issued orders to all our trade convoys to stop hauling borderworld supplies to Liberty.
So to say, we eagerly await new judge to be elected to lead this "cause" of sort.
Douglas Riche
IND Attourney and Representative
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Cause is right,
The cause of law, and the pursuit of justice.
You may not be recognized as a nation, but you are recognized as an entity be it political, terrorist, or commercial trade union.
The judge excused herself, which is commendable given your wild accusations against everyone in the legal system, the government, and against your victims.
I know my clients will sleep safer knowing you and your ilk are banned from Libertonian Space for the time being.
A new judge has been appointed, the right honourable Micheal Raines, and will continue proceedings at a more reasonable hour. Neither party may object. Lacking a physical location for the actions charged, the proceedings are to take place within the legal system of the nation in which the plaintiff is a citizen or registered company. I will intervene if the integrity of our judicial system is questioned further as an attempt to avoid or delay court proceedings.
Additionally, I will notify the forces of the temporary restraining order issued by the Magistrates Office if they do not already have the information to hand.
Dear Mr. McKay,
With sadness I am once again concerned for this entire trial, whilst you claim to be democratic republic, yet you openly deny our ability to object to decision made by you. Such doings cannot be interpreted in a way that would be of any help to a fairness in this matter.
Your procedural laws might state that the case is ruled by your law, as the law of the place where company in question is registered, however Colonial Republic will not be subject to a foreign law, without enough means to defend itself, especially when not recognized. We are not company registered in your space, thus our actions OUTSIDE such space do not fall under your jurisdiction.
We simply will not be dragged into legal proceeding on your own ground, where IND has obvious advantage from the very beginning. We are willing to face them in impartial court out of House law systems, where the matter can be decided without subjective interests, political or economical.
I am not sure what law do you uphold out there, but appointing of judge usually only works for a place, where jurisdiction of a state applies. Colonial space however does not belong to you, therefore application of your laws and even judge appointment are rather unusual.
And we are not waiving our rights, we are merely attempting to ensure fairness, ability to defend and equal treatment to both parties.
Your Republic is keeping us from relevant procedural and substantial laws, refuses to talk with us regarding anything for this case, aside from blaming us constantly for things being done wrong. We seek only to defend our rights and freedoms, but your actions do not provide us space to do either.
Inaudita causa quemquem damnari aequitatis ratio non patitur.
I see no international judicial body for either side to call upon. Indeed, were one to form at this point, it's credibility would be both unproven and in question, wouldn't you agree?
Furthermore, the consequences of a verdict in this case will only have bearing within Liberty. We do not seek to penalise you in an area where our jurisdiction does not extend to. Liberty has never claimed ownership of the Tau systems, and it would be foolish to do so. Where did you get the assumption that we were trying to force consequences far away from our national borders, or force any consequences at all?
I am, however, glad to hear that you are not waiving your rights to trial. I do hope this means that you will cease the semantic arguments that you currently employ, and wait patiently for the right honourable mister Micheal Raines to begin proceedings.
Let me explain this again sir, I shall try to spare you the semantics, as you call them.
Colonial Republic as sovereign, yet by you unrecognized nation, will not be taking place in a trial led by a House. We are not willing to submit ourselves to your laws, especially when we cannot read them through to adequately prepare our defense for the trial. Furthermore, if one party, being the IND here, wishes to sue our Republic for stated reasons, you have no legal means to bring us before this court, may it be threats, diplomatic repercussions or similar. Such actions can only prove that you are House, which do not respect freedom and liberty itself.
If you then wish to hold trial against us with our representative missing, you are merely performing the denegatio iustitiae. As I am forced to say again, under such circumstances, fair trial is not possible.
International court might not exist, but establishing unbiased, impartial and temporary one for the case is an option, which IND avoided for very good reason it seems.
To sum it up Secretary. We demand equal rights as IND, especially in terms of ability to defend our case, access to all relevant law information, before we consider appearing before Liberty courts.
Note also, that under what you said, IND cannot legally claim a financial reimbursement, apology or anything, as we are not your subordinates and as national body only, you cannot force your decision on international level, nor can we be forced to obey it.