10 Questions That Will Establish The Lawyer Is The Right One!

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Cycle Superhighway 9. My observations.

Hounslow Transport Department is consulting informally on the plans in the Hounslow area.  the route goes west from Hyde Park Corner to The Bull in Hounslow Town Centre (an historic coaching inn which must still be a popular pub as the superhighway does a special dogleg in Hounslow to end there).

An example of the plans is here

I have written to the Highways Officers at Hounslow as follows:



Dear Sirs,
Cycle Superhighway 9 – Outline Designs

My interest
                I commute by bicycle from home to Central London through Hounslow and along the A315 following the proposed route of CS9.  I have been doing this for around 10 years.  I am in addition a senior lawyer who is often consulted by cyclists and their families following serious collisions resulting in the death or serious injury of cyclists.  I have a deep commitment to improving the safety and popularity of cycling.
The Outline Designs
                The designs of the proposed CS9 have some merit.  In particular the square blue box cyclist markings placed mid carriageway are useful in indicating to all road users that a cyclist can be expected to ‘take the lane’.  Comprehension of this is, in my experience, often lacking in motorists particularly in the Hounslow area.  However care needs to be exercised to place these on the approach to all junctions and bus stops sufficiently far back to encourage cyclists to move out well in advance of the hazard.
                Equally the improved advanced stop lines are useful though you will need to exercise your influence with the local police to enforce these so that they do not continue to be widely flouted.
                Also tightening up the parking restrictions along the road will obviously benefit cyclists.
                The problem with the outline design, though, is the widespread reliance on the use of narrow (1.5m wide) with flow cycle lanes.  These are positively inimical to the safety of cyclists and it would be far better to save the paint and omit these altogether.  The relevant design standard, Cycle Infrastructure Design (Local Transport Note 2/08) http://assets.dft.gov.uk/publications/local-transport-notes/ltn-2-08.pdfstates that cycle lanes should be 2 metres wide on busy roads.  I attribute my survival after thousands of journeys on the A315 in part upon always travelling at least one metre from the kerb.  The distance from my centre line to my right elbow will take up almost the whole of the remaining 50cm.  All the 1.5m lanes will achieve is to encourage very close passing by motor vehicles, including buses and lorries, on the rare occasions when they are able to outpace a bicycle.  When stationary, as they often are, they are likely to have their wheels hard up against the cycle lane with the dual disadvantage of a narrow strip with poor visibility on the nearside and a reduction in the amount of room available for cyclists to overtake on the offside.  An appropriately trained/experienced cyclist will ignore the narrow cycle lanes, positioning him or herself as though they were not there.  This means that not only is installing them a waste of money, but that they may lead to unwelcome hostility from other road users who do not understand the principles of bikeability.  There is a particularly poorly designed section on map 9 where a kerb side cycle lane continues past an informal crossing where it would not be safe for a bus or HGV to overtake.
Speed
                The A315 is a busy road.  Traffic is frequently congested.  When it does move at speeds approaching 30 mph, that is only for a short distance before the next traffic light or traffic queue.  The designs appear to proceed on an utterly false premise that motor traffic is faster than bicycling.  This premise is not accurate over any significant distance along the A315 save in the dead of night.  What is clearly needed along this route is a 20 mph speed limit.  This would not increase journey times during the day; it would simply slow down the surges and it is a solution that is supposed to fit higher in the hierarchy of design than attempting to banish cyclists to a 1.5m wide strip alongside the kerb.
General
                I trust you find these comments helpful.  I hope you will share them with Council Members and TfL, who I assume also have some input into the design and financing of this project.  It would seem to me sensible that you consult with cycling groups such as CTC before investing considerable sums in a scheme that appears to me to avoid both proper segregation and proper integration, managing the worst of all worlds.
Yours faithfully,

Martin Porter


New Allegations Raised in Sotheby's Forfeiture Case: Cambodian Statue Stolen in 1972 - Trafficked through Thailand with Head Removed - Scientist Fired [UPDATED]

Federal prosecutors on Friday filed a motion to amend their forfeiture complaint in the case of United States of America v. A 10th Century Cambodian Sandstone Sculpture, Currently Located at Sotheby's in New York, New York.  The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York filed the petition in Manhattan federal district court following a September 27 hearing on the claimants' motion to dismiss.

The government's case is an attempt to seize, forfeit, and repatriate a statue (the so-called Defendant in rem) offered for auction by Sotheby's this past spring. Sotheby's and Decia Ruspoli di Poggio Suasa are the claimants who want the Duryodhana sculpture to remain under their legal control.  Both claimants have vigorously contested the civil forfeiture action.

Federal lawyers, in their memorandum asking the court to accept the amended complaint, write that "[at the September 2012 hearing] the Court repeatedly inquired as to the facts the Government expected to be able to prove at trial with respect to the theft of the Defendant in rem from Prasat Chen, and Sotheby's knowledge that the Defendant in rem was stolen."  The proposed amended complaint and the supporting memorandum filed on November 9 contain the government's response to the court's inquiry, supplementing information provided by prosecutors in their initial April 2012 court complaint.

The  Duryodhana is alleged by prosecutors
to have passed through Bangkok (above).
The government's latest memorandum contends that the Duryodhana statue "was stolen from Prasat Chen in 1972, with the head removed first and the torso afterwards, and acquired by a well­ known collector of Khmer antiquities (the "Collector"), via an organized looting network. (Am. Compl. ¶  17-18). The Amended Complaint further alleges that the 1975 sale of the Defendant in rem was conducted for the Collector by an auction house which had full knowledge of its illicit origin. (Id. 19-20)."  The amended complaint specifically claims that the Duryodhana and a companion piece, termed "the Museum Statue," were transited through Thailand. "The heads of the statues were removed and transported first, followed by the torsos, and ultimately delivered to a Thai dealer based in Bangkok (the 'Thai Dealer'). The Defendant in rem and the Museum Statue were then obtained by a well-known collector of Khmer antiquities ('the Collector'). At the time of this purchase, the Collector knew that the statues had been looted from Koh Ker," write the government's lawyers.

[Author's sidebar: A companion statue to the Duryodhana, a Bhima sculpture, has been identified at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California.  Meanwhile, two other related statues are reportedly located at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.  See e.g., PRI's The World.]

The government's memorandum further avers that the "Amended Complaint ... alleges additional facts regarding Sotheby's knowledge that the Defendant in rem was stolen. Among other things, the Amended Complaint alleges that (1) Sotheby's and Ruspoli were aware that the Collector had been the seller of the Defendant in rem in 1975; (2) that Sotheby's consulted with the Collector prior to the importation of the Defendant in rem and throughout the 2010-2011 sale process; (3) that Sotheby's never included information about the Collector's pre-1975 acquisition of the Defendant in rem, or his role as the seller in 1975, in the provenance information it disclosed to the public, potential buyers, the Kingdom of Cambodia, or United States law enforcement; and (4) Sotheby's provided inaccurate provenance information to potential buyers, the Kingdom of Cambodia, United States law enforcement, and others, specifically that the Defendant in rem had been seen in the United Kingdom in the late 1960s, at least three years prior to its actual removal from Prasat Chen. (Am. Compl. ¶ ¶ 21, 29-30, 37, 43-44.)"

The proposed amended complaint specifically claims that "in or around 1974, representatives of [a United Kingdom] Auction House conspired with the Collector and the Thai Dealer to fraudulently obtain export licenses for the Defendant in rem and other antiquities to be shipped to the Auction House in the future."  The proposed complaint asserts that "prospective buyers were unwilling to purchase the Defendant in rem due to its lack of legitimate provenance and missing feet. The Auction House, however, ultimately succeeded in selling the Defendant in rem in 1975, with the torso and head now reattached, to a Belgian businessman, on behalf of a Belgian corporation he controlled. After a transfer to a second corporation, and the death of the businessman, the Defendant in rem was ultimately transferred to his widow, Decia Ruspoli di Poggio Suasa (“Ruspoli”), in 2000."

The amended complaint continues with allegations that an officer in Sotheby's Indian and Southeast Asian Art section "retained a[] professional art scientist (the 'Scientist') to prepare a report on the authenticity of the head of the Defendant in rem and the condition of the work done prior to the 1975 sale to rejoin it to the torso. The Officer informed the Scientist that the head had been separated from the torso 'in antiquity,' rather than in 1972."  The proposed complaint cites an internal Sotheby's email that purports to describe the scientist's observation regarding "the perfect condition of the head compared to the distress suffered by the body." The email allegedly offers the scientist's explanation "that the sculpture was either forcibly broken for ease of transport from the find site and then put back together later OR that the head and torso do not belong together." The government writes that Sotheby's later"terminated the Scientist's engagement."

The government also alleges that Sotheby's agreed to contact the Cambodian government about the sale of the sculpture but advised that "this communication should not come from the senior Sotheby's officer" so as not to attract attention.

The claimant's will have an opportunity to respond to the pleadings filed by the U.S. Attorney's Office.

_________________
UPDATE 11/15/2012

The New York Times reports that Sotheby's denies the claims made by federal attorneys.

The news outlet also writes, "Prosecutors say that in 2010, when the statue was being imported into the United States, the owner submitted an inaccurate affidavit to American customs officials, at Sotheby’s request, stating the statue was 'not cultural property' belonging to a religious site."  This statement has prompted some confusion in the blogosphere, which is important to address here.

By way of background, federal prosecutors allege in both their original complaint and their proposed amended complaint the following:

"In or about late April 2010, Sotheby’s imported the Defendant in rem into the United States in order to offer it for sale at auction. In the commercial invoice prepared in connection with the importation, the Defendant in rem is identified as a 10th Century 'Khmer stone guardian' from Cambodia. The Defendant in rem arrived at JFK Airport on or about April 23, 2010.

"On or about April 26, 2010, at the request of Sotheby's, Ruspoli executed an affidavit that was submitted to United States Customs and Border Protection stating, among other things, '[t]o the best of my knowledge, the [Defendant in rem] is not cultural property documented as appertaining to the inventory of a museum or religious or secular monument or similar institution in Cambodia.'"

This information is not new to the proposed amended complaint.  But some readers may have thought otherwise, given that the latest news in the forfeiture case is the government's petition to file a newly amended complaint.  The New York Times story did not report that prosecutors petitioned to file a new complaint.

Meanwhile, The New York Times' description of the Ruspoli affidavit differs from what is reported by federal prosecutors in their proposed complaint quoted above. The newspaper's truncated description may have opened speculation that federal prosecutors might be attempting to build their forfeiture case on the basis of false statements made to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.  But government lawyers thus far have not presented this argument either in their initial complaint nor in the proposed amended complaint.

Of the several legal grounds on which prosecutors seek forfeiture of the Cambodian sculpture, none is based on the contention that anyone entered false information on customs paperwork in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 542.  That federal statute prohibits the import of goods by means of false statements, and that statute can serve as the basis for a forfeiture of illegally imported goods as it did in the famous case of United States v. An Antique Platter of Gold.  While the government intends to support its forfeiture case by referencing the Ruspoli affidavit, it has not argued clearly how the affidavit should be weighed by the court.  Prosecutors have been careful to not explicitly characterize the Ruspoli affidavit as either false or true. The government, nevertheless, strongly implies that the affidavit in some way supports its legal theory of forfeiture of the Duryodhana statue, but not under 18 U.S.C. § 542.

A final observation. Federal prosecutors are likely aware that the language contained in the Ruspoli affidavit parrots the Cultural Property Implementation Act (CPIA) at 19 USC § 2607, which states, "No article of cultural property documented as appertaining to the inventory of a museum or religious or secular public monument or similar institution in any State Party [to the 1970 UNESCO Convention on cultural property] which is stolen from such institution after the effective date of this chapter, or after the date of entry into force of the Convention for the State Party, may be imported into the United States."  It is important to observe that the government does not argue forfeiture of the Cambodian statue based on a CPIA violation.


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INTERPOL General Assembly Discusses Stolen Art - Attention Focused on Protecting Cultural Heritage in Churches

Prosecutors and police are talking more about cultural heritage crime.  Global antiquities trafficking was discussed at the International Association of Prosecutors annual meeting held in Bangkok last month.  And this week INTERPOL (International Criminal Police Organization) addressed art theft at its 81st general assembly in Vatican City.

INTERPOL President Khoo Boon Hui told the 1000 delegates in attendance that the global police organization "has recognized the need to collaborate with a whole range of partners in the public and private sectors to deal with emerging threats, such as ... trafficking."

Domenico Giani, Vatican City's Inspector General of the Corpo della Gendarmeria (chief of police) specifically addressed the threat of art theft aimed against churches. Giana observed that "[h]umanity's spiritual thirst and desire to praise God 'have given life to works of inestimable value and to a religious patrimony that gives rise to greed and the interest of art traffickers,'" according to the Catholic News Service (CNS).  Giani noted that objects of cultural heritage are particularly vulnerable "in countries where revolts are under way or there are internal struggles fed by a hatred so strong that people try to destroy anything that represents 'the enemy.'"

The trafficking of art and cultural objects is a worldwide priority for INTERPOL.  It maintains an information clearinghouse for police on the topic.  Last month the organization hosted  a workshop in Manila on the prevention of cultural property trafficking.  INTERPOL also assembled a conference in Lyon to confront the growing problem of forged and faked cultural objects.

General Assembly meeting in Vatican City.
Courtesy INTERPOL
Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, Secretary for Relations with States of the Vatican State Secretariat remarked to conference attendees that "criminal activities are now articulated at a global level, with systems of coordination and according to criminal pacts that go beyond the boundaries of States. Hence, globalization has come to shape even this dramatic realm of human life. Sophisticated technical means, huge financial resources, at times dark political complicity, are elements that concur to furnish deleterious support . . . ."

To safeguard cultural and religious objects found in churches and religious institutions of the Roman Catholic faithful, the Pontifical Commission for the Cultural Heritage of the Church in 1999 issued a document titled Necessity and Urgency of Inventory and Cataloguing of the Cultural Heritage of the Church. The statement (found here in English) urges churches to accurately take stock of and to provide stewardship for the cultural and religious articles maintained and utilized by Catholic parishes worldwide. The Commission addressed a similar document to religious orders in 2006 called Inventory of the Institutes of Consecrated Life and the Societies of Apostolic Cultural Patrimony: Some Practical Considerations.

Dioceses, parishes, and religious orders in the United States needing advice about cultural property theft prevention are urged to contact certified members of the International Foundation for Cultural Property Protection. Our professional goal is to safeguard objects maintained by museums, churches, zoos, and other centers of cultural heritage.

[UPDATE 11/13/12]: This link describes examples of church theft and the trafficking of relics from Bolivia.


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Defendants Plead Guilty in Stolen and Switched Matisse Painting Case

A pair indicted for their role in receiving a stolen Henri Matisse painting will be sentenced following a guilty plea hearing held on October 30.  A federal grand jury in Miami handed up indictments in July against Pedro Antonio Marcuello Guzman and Maria Martha Elisa Ornelas Lazo for their involvement with the Odalisque in Red Pants, reported stolen from the Caracas Museum of Contemporary Art (Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Caracas (MACCSII) in Caracas, Venezuela in or around December 2002.

Henri Matisse
The two signed off on proffers that describe their role in the possession, transportation, and sale of the painting.  The proffers state that Marcuello Guzman brokered the sale of the $3+ million painting to undercover FBI agents for a discounted price of $740,000.  Ornelas Lazo later flew from Mexico City to Miami International Airport carrying the Matisse painting in a tube.  The proffers go on to describe the following details of the transfer, switch, and sale of the artwork:

" ... Ornelas and co-conspirator Marcuello met the FBI under cover agents ("UCs") at a Miami Beach restaurant. During the meeting . . . Ornelas explained that she had taken multiple precautions to minimize being stopped by U.S. Customs and to minimize being inspected, such as in the manner of her packing, dressing lightly, and bringing no food into the U.S. Ornelas admitted taking the photographs of the painting that were sent to the UC's. Ornelas advised that she was present for prior inspections when experts inspected the painting and found it to be authentic. Ornelas added that one specialist said the painting was worth $3.7 million. During the meeting, Ornelas indicated that the experts were nervous because they seem to be aware of the painting's history. When one of the UCs asked if the experts were nervous because the painting was stolen, Ornelas replied affirmatively. During the meeting, Ornelas stated that she knew everything in regards to the painting.

"The following day, July 17, 2012, co-conspirator Marcuello, Ornelas, and the UCs met at a Miami Beach hotel to conduct the sales transaction for the stolen Henri Matisse painting. ...

"During the July 17, 2012 transaction, Ornelas advised the UCs that she had researched the history of the stolen painting online when it showed up years ago at her residence in Mexico. Ornelas further indicated that she had had the painting inspectedby experts in Mexico City, but that none had been willing to authenticate the painting in writing given its origins [referring to the painting having been stolen.]  Ornelas stated that employees at the museum in Caracas had done a "switch'' [referring to the replacement of the original painting with an imitation].

"At the conclusion of the July 17, 2012 meeting, the UCs agreed to purchase the painting and followed through with an ostensible attempt to conduct a wire transfer payment to a bank account supplied to the UCs by Ornelas. Ornelas and co-conspirator Marcuello were then arrested and the painting seized."


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Prosecutors Discuss Antiquities Trafficking at International Conference

IAP President James Hamilton of Ireland.
Global antiquities trafficking is a crime that often goes undetected, unreported, uninvestigated, and unprosecuted. That was the message conveyed to over 400 prosecutors from approximately 80 countries during last week's convention of the International Association of Prosecutors (IAP) in Bangkok, Thailand. The conference focused on organized crime.

Antiquities trafficking was featured during a panel examining commodities crime and its funding of organized criminal networks. It was a privilege for me to have been invited to address the conference.

Prosecutors in attendance were informed about operating techniques used by artifacts traffickers, and how cultural contraband remains visible in the stream of commerce after being illegally dug up, transported, smuggled, laundered, and sold. 

"Impunity undermines the rule of law," said UN Special Rapporteur Gabiela Knaul as she advocated for accountability of organized crime participants. One method of enforcement suggested by Kier Starmer, head of the United Kingdom's Crown Prosecution Service, is to prosecute offenders and seize criminal assets, followed by post-conviction financial reporting by defendants in order to deter repeat offenses.

One of the IAP's stated objectives is "to improve cooperation between prosecutors to more readily combat international criminality."


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Register Now! - The Untold Story of Cultural Heritage, WWII, and the Pacific


Leyte GulfThe Untold Story of Cultural Heritage, World War II, and the Pacific

A Conference Marking the 70th Anniversaries of the Battles of of the Coral Sea, Midway, and Guadalcanal

Thursday, November 8, 2012 – Friday, November 9, 2012 THIS WEEK!

 
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Shipwreck Ethics


Edward Rodley, senior Exhibit Director at Boston's Museum of Science (MoS), has written an article titled "The Ethics of Exhibiting Salvaged Shipwrecks," published in October's issue of Curator: The Museum Journal.  The article coincidentally appears as the MoS hosts a special exhibition sponsored by commercial maritime salvor Odyssey Marine Exploration called SHIPWRECK! Pirates & Treasure.

Curator magazine describes Rodley's article as follows:

"The contentious relationship between cultural heritage professionals and commercial entities is nowhere more fraught than in underwater archeological sites. More and more often, museums are drawn into this conflict through hosting traveling exhibitions. This article explores the ethical issues in two shipwreck exhibitions, Shipwrecked: Tang Treasures and Monsoon Winds, and Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Whydah from Slave Ship to Pirate Ship, and the specific responses museums have made to address the ethical issues around commercial exploitation of cultural heritage. The article calls for museums to be more thoughtful and deliberate consumers, and embrace their potential as safe venues for exploring ethical dilemmas these sites embody."

Ed Rodley is a museum professional with a background in archaeology.  I spoke with Rodley about why he wrote the article.  He replied in an email excerpted below.

"Museum exhibitions are one of the main venues where the general public encounters archaeology, yet ethical issues get little to no acknowledgement or discussion in most exhibitions. In my experience, responses by the broader museum community to ethical issues tend to break down into either A) avoiding anything controversial, or B) pretending that there is no controversy by ignoring it. Both of these strategies deny the public the opportunity to explore these issues.

"I wanted to highlight the inadequacy of those responses and hopefully stimulate some discussion of other responses to controversy.

"I wrote the article to focus on museum responses to two underwater cultural heritage controversies; the Belitung wreck from Indonesia and the Whydah Galley. They are perfect examples of the dilemmas that face anyone working in cultural heritage. The different responses to these exhibitions are instructive for any museum thinking about hosting these kinds of exhibitions.

"Museums have the potential to be that ideal third space where people can engage with challenging ideas, and feel safe doing it. If the article encourages more conversation about ways museums can actually participate in the debate, then I'd consider it well worth the effort."

The article is worth a read.  Those wishing to learn even more about underwater heritage issues may find last year's Lawyers' Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation conference of interest.  The program may be viewed online here.


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