The appeal trial: preparing the ground

Even before its appeal opened, Scientology fought back against the 2009 fraud convictions with accusations of judicial bias and suggestions ...

What the Prosecution wants on appeal

The prosecutor in the Paris appeal trial for organised fraud and the illegal practice of pharmacy wants to more than double the fines handed...

Reviewing the Paris Judgment

Even if the sentences in the 2009 Paris trial of Scientology have been widely reported, the court’s supporting arguments received less atten...

Analysing the FWO report

The recent report by the Fair Work Ombudsman on Scientology may be a more cautious version of the draft document, but it still packs a punch...

This is why...

Scotland’s Sunday Herald published this article in November 2009, during one of the media’s periodic flurries of interest in Scientology’s a...

Fresh blows to Scientology in Australia

Scientology in Australia, which is already fighting to retain its tax-exempt charitable status, faces new threats to its financial survival....

Legal Update II: the Headleys

A case before the U.S. Supreme Court in October could play a key role in lawsuits filed against Scientology by former members of its Sea Org...

Lawsuits Update I: Laura DeCrescenzo

An appeal court ruling has put Laura DeCrescenzo’s lawsuit against Scientology back on track, while a case at the Supreme Court just might o...

Janet Reitman's 'Inside Scientology'

Janet Reitman spent five years researching and writing Inside Scientology: it was worth the wait. For years, journalists had been warned tha...

Australian Police Charge Top Scientologist

Update: April 2012 Charges dropped by the prosecutors. For more information see Tony Ortega´s round-up at Village Voice. A high-profile Scie...

Spy v. Spy (Part I)

We know that Scientology and United States government agencies have spied on each other over the years: what is less clear is whether they e...

18 Daniel Montalvo's Lawsuits

--UPDATE: SETTLED OUT OF COURT, OCTOBER 2011 -- A former Sea Org member is suing Scientology: recruited as a minor, deprived of a proper edu...

2 A French take on Scientology

In Scientologie: autopsie d’une secte d’Etat, Fansten has joined the dots on Scientology’s lobbying activities not just in France, but world...