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# Mysterious island. (Source: 'Friends of Pitcairn' mailing list).

A lot of things seem to be happening on Pitcairn Island these days. Or maybe these incidents have been happening for a long time and it is only now that we are finding out about them. After all, it is kind of isolated from the rest of the world.

# Pitcairn Sex Crime Accused Wins Appeal Right. This article has a bit more information about what exactly the Privy council will be considering.

Britain's Privy Council will consider the jurisdiction and composition of the court and trial and the applicability of the British statutes under which they are being prosecuted, Privy Council registrar John Watherston said.

Asked if, as part of the appeal, the council would consider whether the Pitcairns should be considered British territory, he replied: Yes. It's fairly fundamental stuff.

# Pitcairn men win right to appeal.

But on Monday three Privy Council law lords granted the men leave to appeal, although the trial will continue.

# Pitcairn men can challenge sex trial.

A spokesman for the British High Commission in Wellington, which administers Pitcairn, the last British territory in the South Pacific, said he had been told by defence lawyers that leave to appeal to the Privy Council had been granted.

# Pitcairn sex crime defendants wins right to appeal whole trial process.

Lawyers defending seven Pitcairn Islands men against a string of sex charges have been granted the right to challenge the trial process before Britain's highest appellate court, British authorities said on Tuesday.

# Pitcairn life of 'beatings and abuse'.

A former Pitcairner yesterday painted a picture of a wretched childhood in which she was frequently thrashed at home and sexually assaulted by several older men on the island