For reasons that remain unclear, the case was heard by a military court, where the judge tried to hold the trial in private, claiming that the jury was afraid of being seen on television.
Mr Assange has also pointed to the case of Private Bradley Manning, awaiting trial in the US accused of leaking classified material to Wikileaks.
If industry funding provides grounds to claim bias, collaborating with trial lawyers and running a private company designed to test for the chemical you have denounced for the past decade is hardly evidence of academic disinterest.
Cornwell, who is notoriously private, is expected to appear at the trial, which is entering its second week.
One lawyer has suggested in private it could even be September 2009 before the trial can start.
The so-called "Vatileaks" scandal last year led to the pope's butler, Paolo Gabriele, being convicted on charges of leaking private papers from the Vatican in a high-profile trial and sentenced to 18 months in prison.
From 1979 to 1993, Judge Droney was engaged in the private practice of law in Hartford, Connecticut, specializing in trial work.
Simpson says former defence lawyer, Yale Galanter, was ineffective at the subsequent trial because he had an personal interest in keeping private his own advice to Simpson.
The Justice Department and the Plaintiffs Steering Committee, the lead private attorneys in the case, have vowed to prove at trial that BP was grossly negligent and that it engaged in willful misconduct in causing the spill.
The brothers lived a champagne lifestyle, taking exotic holidays, designer clothing, expensive jewellery, artwork, home improvements and private number plates for their cars, jurors in the five-week trial heard.
Hungry entrepreneurialism has turned PPD into one of the largest and leanest providers of clinical trial services to the drug and biotech industries (Covance and private Quintiles are the biggest overall).
That the government intervened in the lawsuit is serious, said Robert L. Vogel, a former Justice Department trial attorney who handled false-claims cases and is now in private practice.
Chief Justice Hannah maintained a private law practice for ten and a half years before he was elected to the trial bench.
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The current wild beaver populations in Scotland either belong to the government-licensed Scottish Beaver Trial in Knapdale in Argyll, or are the descendants of escapees from private collections in Angus and Perthshire over the past decade.
At trial, Alfred Taubman's handlers admit he wanted his meetings with Sir Anthony very private.
Last year, leaks of secret documents from the pope's private apartment -- which revealed claims of corruption within the Vatican -- prompted a high-profile trial of his butler and a behind-doors investigation by three cardinals.
In 2011 Asil Nadir's defence team tried to stop the trial by arguing that the original case controller prejudiced the case by passing around the tycoon's private legal correspondence and failing to tell the attorney general about this.
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