WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has lost his appeal against an extradition order to face rape and sexual assault charges in Sweden, prompting his lawyer to call on the Australian government to intervene. Read the full story

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has asked the UK High Court to block an extradition order to Sweden where he faces questioning on sexual assault allegations. His lawyer, Ban Emmerson, claims the arrest warrant is flawed as Assange has suffered a “mismatch” of Swedish and English law on what constitutes a sex crime. Read the full story

Former Icelandic prime mininster Geir H. Haarde, who is on trial for incompetence during the banking crash, has told the AFP that the trial is a sham and that he actually helped save Iceland from Greece’s fate. Read the full story

Geir H. Haarde, former Prime Minister of Iceland, has had formal charges laid against him in the High Court case over his alleged incompetence before and during the banking crisis. He has criticised the process openly. Read the full story

The Althingi prosecutor says charges against former Icelandic Prime Minister Geir H. Haarde are nearly ready and will be put to the court trying him for negligence in the banking crisis “very soon”. Read the full story

Agust Gudmundsson, commonly associated with the companies Bakkavor and Exista, has reached a settlement, along with his wife, with creditors over a lawsuit brought against them at the High Court in London. Read the full story

The much-talked-about EUR 500 million from the Central Bank of Iceland to Kaupthing shortly before the latter bank collapsed did not (for the most part) go to the UK and into Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander. This is one of the findings of the High Court case in London brought by Kaupthing against the British government. It is interesting to note, according to Visir.is, that the court ruling implies that if the loan had been used to support KS&F, the fall of Kaupthing might have been avoided. Read the full story

PRESS RELEASE FROM THE KAUPTHING BANK HF. RESOLUTION COMMITTEE:

The High Court of England has consented to Kaupthing Bank’s request for permission to apply for judicial review of the legitimacy of the decision taken by the UK authorities to transfer to a third party, without compensation, deposits from Kaupthing Edge accounts at the bank’s UK subsidiary, Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander, on 8 October 2008. Read the full story