“Football fan Garry Mann’s hope of avoiding two years in a Portuguese jail rests with a ruling by human rights judges today.”
The Independent, 27th April 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“High court judges have backed demands by the home secretary and the US authorities to extradite a seriously ill woman to stand trial in America on charges of abducting her daughter 12 years ago.”
The Guardian, 21st April 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A former Dresdner Kleinwort investment banker and his wife have been charged with insider dealing as part of an ongoing effort by the Financial Services Authority to crack down on market abuse, which the watchdog admitted over the weekend was still ‘unacceptably high’ in the City.”
The Guardian, 15th March 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Norris v Government of United States of America (No 2) [2009] UKSC 9; [2010] WLR (D) 52
“It was only if some quite exceptionally compelling feature, or combination of features, was present that interference with the right to family life under art 8(1) of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms consequent upon extradition would be other than proportionate to the objective that extradition served.”
WLR Daily, 25th February 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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“A former industry boss has lost a Supreme Court appeal in his battle to avoid extradition from the UK to the US over obstructing justice allegations.”
BBC News, 24th February 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Five young men accused of attempting to murder a British holidaymaker in Crete were today ordered to travel to Greece to face justice. A judge granted an extradition request after hearing the gang were suspected of the savage mob attack in Malia in June 2008.”
The Independent, 16th February 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The European Court of Human Rights is to consider later whether an England football fan should be extradited to Portugal to serve a prison sentence.”
BBC News, 2nd February 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“An England fan has lost his latest fight to avoid being extradited to Portugal to serve a jail term for his involvement in a riot during Euro 2004.”
BBC News, 19th January 2010
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“The home secretary may have acted unlawfully by pursuing the extradition of the computer hacker Gary McKinnon, a high court judge said yesterday.”
The Guardian, 14th January 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Extraditing the alleged British computer hacker Gary Mckinnon to America will breach Britain’s 300-year-old Bill of Rights, a top human rights barrister has said.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th January 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Gary McKinnon, the alleged computer hacker, must answer the serious criminal charges put to him by prosecutors in the United States, Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary, has said.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th December 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Lawyers say new evidence shows computer hacker Gary McKinnon could not survive US prison system.”
The Guardian, 10th December 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“British computer programmer Gary McKinnon has been granted another seven days to challenge Alan Johnson’s decision to extradite him to America to answer computer hacking charges.”
Daily Telegraph, 2nd December 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“If there is one thing the Supreme Court proved in its ruling for the banks against the Office of Fair Trading last week (The Lawyer 25 November) it is that it will not be swayed by public opinion.”
The Lawyer, 2nd December 2009
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“The Home Secretary has defended his decision to allow the extradition of computer hacker Gary McKinnon amid criticism from some MPs.”
BBC News, 1st December 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The ‘devastated’ lawyers for computer hacker Gary McKinnon are to challenge the home secretary’s decision not to block his extradition to the US.”
BBC News, 27th November 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Two cousins from Essex who were passengers in a car which hit and killed a teenager in Cyprus have lost a High Court bid to avoid extradition.”
BBC News, 25th November 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Louca v Public Prosecutor, Bielefeld [2009] UKSC 4; [2009] WLR (D) 337
“To satisfy the requirements of s 2 of the Extradition Act 2003 a European arrest warrant only had to make reference to the requesting state’s domestic arrest warrant on which it was based and not to any previous European arrest warrant, based on the same domestic warrant, which had previously been issued and superseded.”
WLR Daily, 20th November 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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“The Home Secretary has thrown a lifeline to Gary McKinnon, the alleged computer hacker, with a promise to examine new medical evidence “very carefully” before deciding on his extradition to the United States.”
The Times, 27th October 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A Briton accused of hacking into secret military and Nasa computers has had his extradition to the US put on hold as new psychiatric evidence is considered.”
BBC News, 17th October 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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