{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/61926927b481c700126c2eb2/62458ae1107b3900135458b2?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Oligarchs, Free Speech, and the Law (Part 1)","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/61926927b481c700126c2eb2/1644921937661-83296c998938c08efb7ab6e9aa94a8a1.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>In recent decades, oligarchs and kleptocrats have routinely used English courts to silence free speech and launder their murky pasts. In the first of a two part series Neil and Jonathan talk to distinguished lawyers Mark Stephens and David Hooper about the history of “lawfare” and their own experiences of it.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins.</p><p>With David Hooper and Mark Stephens.</p><p>Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for Podot.</p><p>Sponsored by Briefcase.news</p>","author_name":"Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins"}