30th Jun 2021
At a hearing before the Supreme Court of British Columbia on 29 June 2021, lawyers for Meng Wanzhou applied for permission to admit into evidence internal HSBC records and emails that they say contradict the allegations forming the basis of the US request for the Huawei CFO’s extradition. Ms Meng is charged in the […]
24th Jun 2021
On 17 June 2021, the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee published its report, In the room: the UK’s role on multilateral diplomacy, a product of the Committee’s inquiry into the ways in which the governance and work of multilateral organisations are being undermined. The report paints a stark picture of the myriad threats […]
21st Jun 2021
Background Facts The appellant (‘P’) appealed against an order for his extradition to Romania to serve a sentence of 7 years’ imprisonment for two offences: accessory to aggravated abuse of power and bribery. The convictions stemmed from an alleged conspiracy to transfer a plot of land under State ownership to a private company. P […]
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