Modern Lawfare: How Oligarchs use courts to silence their enemies

The Bunker

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🗓️ 26 October 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Russian Oligarchs routinely use a process in English courts to silence their critics. It’s called Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation or SLAPPs for short. David Hooper is a veteran lawyer and author of Buying Silence How oligarchs, corporations and plutocrats use the law to gag their critics. He’s no stranger to this expensive process and says it makes it too easy for billionaires to launder their reputation. He joins Ros Taylor in The Bunker. https://www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/buying-silence “The courts seem to take the view that it’s not their fault they’re oligarchs.” – David Hooper. “The whole court process is pretty scandalous, it needs resetting.” – David Hooper. “Once the roubles were put on the table, people were perfectly happy to act for Prigozhin.” – David Hooper. Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Ros Taylor. Producer: Chris Jones. Audio production: Robin Leeburn. Assistant Producer: Adam Wright. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Music by Kenny Dickinson. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:01.9	Hello and welcome to the bunker. You'll need to know on news and politics
1:07.6	seven days a week. I'm Ros Taylor. I'm frankly surprised that today's
1:12.2	guest is here at all.
1:14.0	As a lawyer he's worked for people whose attempts to stand up to state corruption have ended in their deaths.
1:20.0	David Hooper is now retired, but has written a book called Buying Silence about the way oligarchs, companies and plutocrats use the law to gag their opponents.
1:29.0	Robert Maxwell Yevgeny Krogorin, Nadim Sahawi, Mohammed Al-Fayed, it's a rogue's gallery of the evil, the corrupt, and the merely tax-shy.
1:38.0	Welcome to the bunker David.
1:40.0	Good morning.
1:41.0	Your book is about slaps, which stands for strategic lawsuits
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