The parents of Harry Dunn, who was killed on 27 August 2019, following a collision between his motorbike and a vehicle being driven by Anne Sacoolas, have lost a High Court challenge to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s (FCO) determination that at the time of the accident Mrs Sacoolas enjoyed diplomatic immunity. The Dunn family […]
The NCA has responded to questions posed by the Chair of the Home Affairs Committee on the impact of Brexit on the future of UK security co-operation. In response to the loss of access to the Second Generation Schengen Information System (SIS II), the NCA said that it had recruited and trained over 60 additional […]
Hungary and Poland have voted to block the EU’s trillion euro budget and coronavirus recovery package over a clause which makes receipt of money from Brussels conditional on Member States’ adherence to the rule of law. Both Hungary and Poland have been subject to criticism and EU internal disciplinary procedures in recent months in response […]
Retired Royal Canadian Mountain Police (RCMP) Officer Ben Chang has informed legal teams for the defence and the Canadian government that he will not appear in court to give evidence in Ms Meng’s ongoing extradition proceedings. Lawyers for Ms Meng want to question Mr Chang, the former head of the RCMP’s financial integrity unit at […]
On 20 October 2020, the High Court dismissed Romanian national Bogan Alexander Adamescu’s appeal against a decision of District Judge Zani, sitting at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, not to discharge him from extradition proceedings and that he be returned to Romania on charges of bribing judges. Mr Adamescu’s legal team argued that his extradition should be […]
Recent legislative developments in Poland have called into question the independence of the judiciary. In response to this, in September 2020, Dutch courts suspended extradition of requested persons to Poland and referred a question to the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) seeking clarification as to whether systemic or generalised deficiencies in a Member […]
The Court d’appeal de Paris (appellate court), on 4 November 2020, refused the UK extradition request in respect of former Barclays trader Phillippe Moryoussef, and ordered his discharge on the grounds that the conduct contained in the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) was not a crime in France at the time it occurred. Mr Moryoussef was […]
Associate Chief Justice Heather Holmes handed down an interim ruling on 28 October 2020 in the ongoing extradition proceedings against Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou, which allows the defence to argue that the US misrepresented the evidence of alleged fraud against Ms Meng to the Canadian authorities. The judge stated that the allegations have […]
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