Background facts The appellant Requested Person (‘RP’) appealed against the decision of the District Judge to order his extradition to Spain pursuant to an accusation European Arrest Warrant (‘EAW’) for offences relating to his alleged involvement in a criminal enterprise which was engaged in fraud and money laundering. The appellant had a chequered history […]
Background facts The appellant Requesting State (‘RS’) appealed against the decision of the District Judge (‘DJ’) to order the Requested Person’s (‘RP’) discharge under section 20(7) of the Extradition Act 2003. The RP was sought pursuant to a conviction European Arrest Warrant (‘EAW’) for two offences of trafficking vulnerable women for prostitution for which […]
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 […]
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 […]
On 12 May 2021, the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union (‘CJEU’) handed down judgment in the case of WS v Bundesrepublik Case C-505/19. The Court was required to interpret the application of the principle of ne bis in idem, or double jeopardy, as contained in Article 54 […]
On Friday 30 April 2021, the Supreme Court handed down judgment in the case of Zabolotnyi v The Mateszalka District Court, Hungary [2021] UKSC 14. In a unanimous decision, the five-person court upheld the Divisional Court’s decision to dismiss the appellant’s appeal against an order for his extradition to Hungary but held that its […]
Lawyers for Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou and the Canadian government returned to the Supreme Court of British Columbia for a brief hearing on 28 April 2021. The purpose of the hearing was to set a new timetable for the remaining phase of Ms Meng’s extradition hearing following the Court’s decision, on 21 […]
In a letter sent to the EU Security and Justice Sub-Committee of the House of Lords earlier this month, the Home Office confirmed that ten EU States will opt-in to the nationality exception in Title VII of Part 3 of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement 2020 (“the TCA”), which makes provision for post-Brexit surrender […]
Speaking on Monday 15 March 2021 at the 9th Annual European Compliance & Ethics Institute Conference, SFO Director Lisa Osofsky downplayed the challenges facing the SFO in the coming year. In particular, the Director appeared unfazed by February’s Supreme Court decision in R (on the application of KBR, Inc) v SFO [2021] UKSC 2, […]
On 12 March 2021, Associate Chief Justice Heather Holmes ruled on a defence application, made on behalf of Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou, to adduce expert evidence and evidence from Huawei employees in the course of her ongoing legal battle against extradition from Canada to the US. Ms Meng faces charges in the […]
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