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The judge who jailed Tommy Robinson for 13 months in May never saw the campaigner’s full Facebook Live broadcast, his legal team argues.
Neither did the defence lawyer who represented the far-right activist when he was summarily put into the dock and imprisoned within a matter of five hours, according to documents being studied by the Court of Appeal.
Had they watched his broadcast, they would have seen that he was trying to remain within the law and believed he had taken the necessary steps to avoid being in contempt of court, it is argued.
Robinson, 35, from Luton, had even attended a media law training session with the law firm Kingsley Napley, unknown to Leeds crown court when he was imprisoned for comments made about a sensitive jury trial.