Christian Silva

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724 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 20 Aug

Christian Silva’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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And it's for that reason that he said the prosecution case could continue.

It's a very high bar.

It rarely, rarely happens.

Yeah.

Yeah, it was pretty farcical scenes.

I mean, when you consider what's at stake here, what this case is about, the death of a young woman.

Well, apparently it's not about the death of a young woman anymore, but we know that is the broader context of what's happened.

You've got this judge reading out this complex legal decision about whether the case continues or not.

And then midway through, the translator who is on a link just vanishes off the link.

The judgment is paused for a moment.

Everyone thinks it's just a matter of, you know, firing the link back up and getting this guy back online.

And then he says, oh, sorry, I'm not qualified to interpret at this level.

I only sort of do a couple of lines here or there.

Not qualified.

qualified to interpret on the fly.

So in the end, he bails out of the hearing and Gagnev's defence team, they decide not to hold the case up.

They say, look, just proceed and we will relay the decision immediately.

to him, which was probably the right thing to do given Isla Bell's family was there, the court had been convened.

But yeah, pretty farcical scenes in a case of such high stakes.

Justice Elliott's decision very helpfully provided some answers to these questions that a lot of us have been wondering for a long time.

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