INTERPOL reveals for the first time the extent of abuse of Red Notices

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A new step in cross-border access to data: Overseas Production Orders to come online in October

Following ratification by the US Congress, the Data Access Agreement between the US and UK will enter into force on the 3 October 2022. Originally signed on 3 October...

Lady Justice’s Sword of Damocles: Erdogan puts pressure on Stockholm after Sweden’s Supreme Court prevents extradition

The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has threatened that Turkey may still block Swedish membership of NATO following reports of a Swedish Supreme Court decision blocking the extradition of...

Extradition for Accession: Turkey demands extradition of 33 individuals in return for accepting Sweden and Finland’s accession to NATO

Turkey has renewed efforts to extradite 33 individuals it designates as terrorists from Sweden and Finland following the signing of a trilateral memorandum between the countries removing Turkey’s veto...

A new dimension in international plea-bargaining? Megaupload pair plead guilty in New Zealand to avoid extradition to the USA

Mathias Ortmann and Bram van der Kolk pleaded guilty to charges of causing artists to lose money by deception and being part of a criminal group at the Auckland...

CASE SUMMARY: El Omari v International Criminal Police Organisation (“INTERPOL”)

Background On May 24, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit upheld a decision by the District Court for the Eastern District of New York (“District Court”) which...

Extradition of New Zealand Murder Suspect to China could set ‘dangerous precedent’

New Zealand is under international pressure to stop the extradition of Kyung Yup Kim (“Kim”), Korean-born and permanent resident of New Zealand, accused of killing a young woman in...

Assange Extradition now with UK Home Secretary: What happens next?

On 20th April 2022, Westminster Magistrates’ Court formally approved the extradition of Julian Assange to the US on espionage and computer misuse charges, and sent his case to the...

New Zealand Murder Suspect can be Extradited to China

New Zealand Supreme Court Rules in “test case which the international community was watching closely” On 13 April 2022, a five-strong panel in the New Zealand Supreme Court (“NZSC”)...