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# Lisa Smith

Last month
March 2023
# Courts
Ex-soldier Lisa Smith loses appeal to reduce 15-month prison sentence for IS membership
Smith, a convert to Islam, went to Syria in 2015 and was found guilty in May of IS membership.
This year
2023
# Lisa Smith
UK Home Secretary challenges tribunal ruling over ex-soldier Lisa Smith who joined IS
Smith’s lawyers argue that she is entitled to be treated as a British citizen under the European Convention on Human Rights.
Last year
2022
# Court of Appeal
Lisa Smith's offending was at 'lowest level' and sentence was 'excessive', lawyers tell court
The Court of Appeal reserved judgment.
# Court
Former soldier Lisa Smith sentenced to 15 months for Islamic State membership
Smith, 40, was found guilty in May of membership of the terror group but acquitted of financing terrorism.
# Courts
Lisa Smith has already served a sentence and should not be jailed, lawyers tell court
The court heard that Smith already served a custodial sentence in Syria and has lived with a 13-hour daily curfew since 2019.
# Courts
Lisa Smith found guilty of membership of the terrorist organisation Isis by Special Criminal Court
Earlier she was found not guilty of funding terrorism.
# Courts
Lisa Smith's lawyers make fresh bid to have charges against her dismissed
If the Special Criminal Court does not accept the arguments made by her lawyers, they will reveal their verdicts on 30 May.
# Courts
Prosecution evidence against Lisa Smith falls short of what's required, barrister tells court
Smith (40) has been on trial for nine weeks at the Special Criminal Court.
# Courts
Lisa Smith ‘answered call to migrate to Syria’, court hears
The former soldier denies membership of so-called Islamic State.
# Special Criminal Court
Court will consider verdicts in Lisa Smith trial
The former Irish soldier has pleaded not guilty to membership of an unlawful terrorist group, namely Islamic State.
# Special Criminal Court
Lisa Smith warned her family to become Muslim 'before it's too late', court told
Lisa Smith sent a Facebook message saying she would see her family in heaven if they converted, the Special Criminal Court heard today.
# Special Criminal Court
Facebook in 'wholesale breach of privacy rights', Lisa Smith lawyers tell court
The legal team are objecting to the admissibility of messages sent using Facebook between Smith and known Islamist terrorists in Australia and Syria.
# Courts
Lisa Smith called government a 'shower of b*****ds' while talking 'anti-western stuff'
The court also heard that Smith was described by a superior officer in the Irish army as “industrious, hard-working and reliable”.
# Courts
FBI agent tells court it was 'beyond suspicion' Lisa Smith joined Isis
Five counter-terrorism FBI agents gave evidence this week during legal argument in the trial.
# Special Criminal Court
Lisa Smith was legally arrested in 2019, court rules
Lawyers for former Defence Forces soldier had challenged the legality of her arrest on her return to Ireland.
# Lisa Smith
Lisa Smith lawyers challenge legality of her arrest when she returned to Ireland
Her trial continues at the three-judge, non-jury Special Criminal Court.
# Courts
Lisa Smith 'threw her life away to go and join a violent, extremist ideology', court hears
The Lisa Smith trial continues today.
# Courts
Lisa Smith married a member of al Qaida while in Syria, court hears
The 39-year-old ex-soldier has pleaded not guilty to terror-related charges at the Special Criminal Court.
# Trial
Lisa Smith tried to justify suicide bombings, trial told
The former Defence Forces soldier, 39, has pleaded not guilty to charges of membership of Islamic State.
# Lisa Smith
Former Air Corps member Lisa Smith 'wanted to die a martyr', Special Criminal Court hears
The trial is expected to last 12 weeks.
# Special Criminal Court
Lisa Smith: Judges reject call to dismiss charges - trial starts tomorrow
Smith is charged with alleged offences associated with membership of Islamic State.
# islamic state
Lisa Smith bid to have charges dropped to be decided on Monday
The 39-year-old, from Co Louth, is accused of being a member of Islamic State and financing terrorism.
# Courts
Lucinda Creighton's statement on Lisa Smith trial 'blatant contempt of court' - defence lawyers
Defence counsel Michael O’Higgins SC, for Smith, raised his concerns about a statement released last week.
# Special Criminal Court
Bid by Lisa Smith to have terror charges dropped to be heard today
Smith, 39, is accused of being a member of the so-called Islamic State (IS) and financing terrorism.
# Court
Lisa Smith's bid to have terror charges dropped will be heard next week
Lisa Smith’s trial before the non-jury court was due to start this week.
# Court
Lisa Smith trial expected to be delayed as defence seek for case to be struck out
Smith is charged with alleged membership of terror group Islamic State (ISIS) and other associated charges.
All time
# international witnesses
Witnesses in US and Australia will not have to travel here for Lisa Smith trial, court rules
The court said it would allow evidence to be called from three witnesses in the case by video-link.
# Special Criminal Court
'Absolutely enormous' volume of documents in Lisa Smith case is crashing printers
Lisa Smith is accused of being a member of ISIS and of financing terrorism.
# Lisa Smith
'Gigantic' amount of disclosure ahead of trial of former Defence Forces member Lisa Smith
She is charged with membership of ISIS.
# Lisa Smith
Former Defence Forces member Lisa Smith wins appeal against UK entry ban
Smith, who is due to stand trial next year, wanted to be able to cross the border into Northern Ireland.
# islamic state
Trial of former Defence Forces member Lisa Smith to begin in January 2022
Smith is charged with membership of the Islamic State terrorist group and with financing terrorism.
# Lisa Smith
Former Defence Forces member Lisa Smith returned for trial at Special Criminal Court
Smith is accused of membership of the terror group Islamic State.
# Courts
Former Defence Forces member Lisa Smith sent forward for trial to Special Criminal Court
Smith is accused of membership of the terror group Islamic State.
# Courts
Lisa Smith faces additional charge of terrorist financing
Smith has already been charged with membership of an unlawful organisation under 2005 terror legislation.
# Lisa Smith
Another delay in the case of former Defence Forces member Lisa Smith
The 38-year-old former Irish defence forces member was due to return to Dublin District Court today.
# Adjourned
The case of former Defence Forces member Lisa Smith has been adjourned for three months
Smith was arrested at Dublin Airport in November.
# Dublin District Court
Lisa Smith 'anxious' for case to begin to prove her innocence, court hears
Smith is due back in court on 17 April.
# Court
'Not a single piece of evidence': Lawyers for Lisa Smith argue for terror charge to be dropped
The Irish woman has been charged with membership of an unlawful organisation, under 2005 terror legislation.
# Bail
Former Defence Forces member Lisa Smith released on bail
Her bail conditions including residing at an address in the northeast and signing on at a garda station twice daily.
# Courts
Lisa Smith still on remand in prison despite being granted bail last week
Smith may yet may yet spend Christmas in jail over issues around the independent surety.