“Hundreds of Britons will be extradited for minor misdemeanours ranging from driving offences and drunkenness to more bizarre crimes such as stealing chickens, under new rules which come into force next year.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th August 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Ervin Juresa does not seem like a man on Europol’s most-wanted list. He is mild-mannered, well dressed and articulate — less international master criminal, more suburban accountant.”
The Times, 13th August 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“When considering the lawfulness of extradition by reference to the likely prison conditions which a person, if extradited, would face upon conviction in the requesting country, the question whether the high threshold under art 3 of the Convention on Human Rights for inhuman or degrading treatment would be crossed would depend on the facts of the particular case. There was no common standard for what did or did not amount to inhuman or degrading treatment throughout the many different countries in the world.”
WLR Daily, 10th August 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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“A former Roman Catholic priest was remanded in custody today after being extradited to Britain from the United States to face allegations of sexual abuse.”
The Independent, 8th August 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Why are we asking this now?
Because Gary McKinnon has been fighting the United States’ plans to have him extradited on hacking charges for the best part of seven years.”
The Independent, 4th August 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The government will push for Gary McKinnon, the computer hacker fighting extradition to the US, to serve his sentence in a British prison if he is found guilty, Labour’s deputy leader said today.”
The Guardian, 2nd August 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Computer hacker Gary McKinnon will appeal to the newly formed Supreme Court after he today lost his latest High Court bid to avoid extradition to America.”
The Times, 31st July 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A Briton fighting extradition to the US for hacking into top-secret computers claims he was morally justified in breaking the law.”
BBC News, 28th July 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“British judges are significantly more likely to agree to extradite suspects to the US than American judges are to allow their citizens to be brought here for trial, research suggests.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th July 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Gary McKinnon’s fight to be prosecuted in the UK casts a stark light on our extradition arrangements with America. US prosecutors are threatening him with up to 70 years in a ‘supermax’ prison – and this a man with Asperger’s syndrome who could hardly be less suited to such punishment.”
The Guardian, 16th July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
” ‘Humanitarian considerations’ that have arisen in the case of Asperger’s syndrome sufferer Gary McKinnon mean he should not face trial in the US for hacking into American military computers, the high court heard today.”
The Guardian, 14th July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A man attempted to avoid extradition today because his human rights could be breached by being fed ‘potentially life threatening’ red onions in an Irish jail.”
The Independent, 9th July 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Owens v City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court [2009] EWHC 1343 (Admin); [2009] WLR (D) 20
“When an appeal to the High Court under s 26 of the Extradition Act 2003 against an order for extradition to a category 1 territory was unsuccessful, the decision of the High Court on the appeal did not become final within the meaning of s 36(5) of the Act and, accordingly, the 10-day period within which s 36(2) and (3)(a) stipulated that extradition should take place did not begin to run until the 14-day period permitted by s 32(5) for applying to the High Court for leave to appeal to the House of Lords had expired, notwithstanding that the High Court had on the same day as dismissing the appeal declined to certify for the purposes of s 32(4)(a) of the Act that a point of law of general public importance was involved. As regards the requirement in s 36(8) that ‘reasonable cause’ be shown for delay in effecting extradition, the expression could be construed as being sufficiently broad to cover a short delay arising from an error of law made by the Serious Organised Crime Agency (‘SOCA’), the body responsible for the surrender of individuals to requesting states at the conclusion of extradition proceedings under the 2003 Act, in calculating the period within which the person must be extradited as specified in s 36(3) of the Act.”
WLR Daily, 19th June 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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“Former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith ‘chose to disregard’ the impact of a computer hacker’s mental health problems when she approved his extradition to the US, an MP said today.”
The Independent, 18th June 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Two men have lost a High Court fight against extradition to Cyprus where they face three-year jail sentences for the manslaughter of a teenager.”
BBC News, 17th June 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A British ‘UFO eccentric’ accused of hacking into US military networks brought a last challenge in the High Court yesterday against extradition to America on health grounds.”
The Times, 10th June 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A British computer hacker who targeted Nasa should be tried in the UK not the US because his mental state is so fragile, the High Court has heard.”
BBC News, 9th June 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Symeou v Public Prosecutor’s Office at the Court of Appeals, Patras, Greece
Queen’s Bench Divisional Court
“The abuse of process jurisdiction in extradition proceedings did not include misconduct or bad faith by police in the requesting state.”
The Times, 13th May 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The jurisdiction to order a person’s discharge if his extradition would constitute an abuse of process did not extend to consideration of misconduct or bad faith by the police of the requesting state in the investigation of the case or the preparation of evidence for trial.”
WLR Daily, 6th May 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Gomes v Republic of Trinidad and Tobago; Goodyer v Same
House of Lords
“An accused who deliberately fled from a jurisdiction where his trial was pending was not generally entitled to rely on the passage of time due to the delay of the extraditing state in bringing him to justice as a bar to his extradition.”
The Times, 5th May 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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