The full bench of the Federal Court unanimously rejected the appeal of the former Pinochet-era secret police agent, Adriana Rivas, who was seeking to halt her extradition to Chile, where she is wanted for the disappearance of seven regime dissidents in the 1970s.
Rivas' defence filed 17 grounds of appeal and requested the removal of a previous order from Federal Justice Wendy Abraham, confirming that Rivas is extraditable.
Rivas denies all the charges against her. Her defence claims that although she worked at the barracks under the National Intelligence Directorate Director, Manuel Contreras, General Pinochet's second in charge, she was unaware of the activities that took place in those facilities.Read moreThe arguments against her extradition
In the past, Rivas' defence has also claimed that the National Intelligence Directorate "was a government office created by the law of that time", which would be comparable to Australian intelligence agencies, such as ASIS and ASIO and, as such, it can't be considered an illegal organisation.
However, there is no automatic right to have an appeal heard by the High Court and parties wishing to appeal must persuade the court in a preliminary hearing that there are special reasons for it to be heard. One of the conditions to be able to appeal to the High Court is that the appellant must agree to pay the defendant costs of the process regardless of the outcome.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
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