“Zu Sayn-Wittgenstein versus Bourbon and Bourbon. Status of the Hearing: Convened on November 8, 2022. Estimated duration in hours, six & rdquor ;, says the last reference on the notice board of the Court of Appeals, civil division, High Court of England and Waleslast Friday, November 5, about the session that will be held this Tuesday to hear the arguments of the defense of the king emeritus against the civil lawsuit of his ex-lover Corinne for harassment, unlawful tracking, and defamation only for the years that the current emeritus was king. That is, between 2012 and June 18, 2014. The subsequent ones, 2014-2020, will be prosecuted -as has already been resolved by ruling on July 27- in the English jurisdiction.
The lawyers of John Charles I -which will follow the view via YouTube in real time from the island Zaya Nurai Island20.5 kilometers or 15 minutes by boat from Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates – will insist, from the denial of the acts of harassment of his ex-lover Corinna Zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, that, in any case, they occurred “in an official role & rdquor ;, when the king was in office and the director of the National Intelligence Center (CNI), general Felix Sanz Roldan acted in “official function & rdquor ;.
This, then, according to Carter Ruck Law Firmwould protect Juan Carlos I from alleged acts of harassment under the UK State Immunity Act (1978).
The aforementioned lawyers took advantage of the circumstance that the prosecution, Corinna’s lawyers, argued in their written arguments that General Sanz Roldán, head of the CNI, had acted on the orders of Juan Carlos I, King and Head of State of Spain.
limited resource
The ‘barrister’ from Corina, james lewis– that’s what high-ranking lawyers who defend cases in court or bar are called – explained that referring to Sanz Roldán did not involve holding that he had acted, by threatening and/or promoting entrances into the houses of the king’s ex-lover in his houses in London, Monaco and Switzerland, “in his official function or capacity & rdquor ;.
But the two judges explained that the matter deserved clarification and, therefore, authorized a limited resource to the defense of the emeritus.
The Carter Ruck Law Firm, against what is a norm in the English courts, refuses to distribute to journalists what is called the ‘skeleton argument’ or the skeleton/document with the arguments that are distributed between the parties and the public. Last Friday, this newspaper asked one of the firm’s partners, Lawrence Northmore Ball, a copy of the arguments. But he got no response.
“They don’t want to expose the fact that they hide behind the CNI to protect the conduct of Juan Carlos I & rdquor ;, a judicial source in London told THE NEWSPAPER OF CATALONIA.
The evidence process will not begin until the two appellate judges adopt their resolution on immunity for the period between 2012 and June 18, 2014. “It can be estimated that this resolution it will take a couple of months month to arrive. Maybe after Christmas. In any case, the investigation of the evidence won’t start until 2024once the pre-trial phase is over & rdquor ;, the source said.
witness list
General Félix Sanz Roldán is one of the first in the long list of witnesses, along with Juan Carlos I, that Corinna’s lawyers aspire to question in the High Court of England and Wales when the instruction of the demand begins. But if Juan Carlos’ lawyers win the immunity described, Sanz Roldán would be left out of the cause.
As reported by this newspaper, the CNI would have acted in Monaco, at the entrance to Corinna’s home and offices, in May 2012, through the Spanish firm Eulen Seguridad which, in turn, subcontracted with the Monegasque company Algiz Security .
David Alvarez, President of the Eulen group, he was one of the last personalities awarded by Juan Carlos I on May 20, 2014, shortly before he abdicated, and he was granted a marquisate. Álvarez became the last marquis of Juan Carlos I, the Marquis of Crémenes.
Precisely, in his sentence of March 24, the judge Matthew Nicklin He did not take it for granted “that the acts of harassment in London, Monaco and Switzerland were government or sovereign conduct & rdquor ;, but “an act that any private citizen can execute & rdquor ;. The judge suggested, therefore, to leave for a later phase, in the investigation of the facts, to specify that point.
The lawyers of Juan Carlos I have attacked the position and the judges of the Court of Appeals have considered it appropriate to elucidate this point through a “fine surgery”, which required examining the appeal, which led to the limited authorization of the appeal scheduled for this Tuesday, November 8.
The importance of this process is such that it has become the jde facto justification for the extension of self-banishment of Juan Carlos I in the United Arab Emirates, now fully converted. Because the investigative proceedings filed in Switzerland on the 100 million dollars (64.8 million euros) and later in Spain, tax adjustments through, there are no legal reasons for the emeritus to remain outside of Spain. It is therefore about keeping Juan Carlos I far from the Palacio de la Zarzuela so that the revelations of an intimate nature that will surface in the London civil suit don’t keep splashing stains to His Majesty’s House King Felipe VI.
compromising podcasts
That this diagnosis of the Royal House was not mistaken can be seen, for example, in the series of podcasts being broadcast from London with interviews with Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein coinciding with the hearing on Tuesday 8.
The former lover recalls her relationship with Juan Carlos I between 2004 and 2009, the date of their sentimental breakup but not of the friendship that both maintained until later, and that included the hunting of elephants don April 12-13, 2012 in Botswana.
In the second installment of the series, the ex-lover remembers that Juan Carlos I “returned from his travels with bags full of money & rdquor ;.
The apparent purpose is, according to sources consulted in the London capital, to show that the relationship between the two was a stable and serious relationship, in which, Corinna recounts, Juan Carlos I came to ask her several times to get married and that, on one of those occasions, he even traveled to Germany to ask Finn Bönning Larsen for her hand (1920-2009), his father.
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