Closed court hearing on 14-year-old Dutch sailor but no result

9:16 PM Wed 21 Jul 2010 GMT

'Laura Dekker - now with a newly acquired Jeanneau Gin Fizz, Guppy' .

On Tuesday a closed court hearing was held by the Children's court in Middleburg to determine whether Laura Dekker, 14-year-old sailor who wants permission to sail away from Holland solo with the intention of completing a circumnavigation, was to be allowed to depart. Laura has been a ward of the court since last year, and had been given fourteen conditions to meet by July this year to be allowed to depart. In June, although her lawyer claimed she had met all the conditions, the ban on her sailing was extended for a month, until Tuesday. In an about-face just before ...

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by Nancy Knudsen