21st Jul 2022
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 Yilmaz Aytan. Aytan, who ran a school in Afghansitan founded by the Gülen movement, has had permanent residency in Sweden since 2018. He requested asylum following […]
6th May 2021
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 […]
18th Mar 2021
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, […]
9th Feb 2021
Last Friday, in R (on the application of KBR) v SFO [2021] UKSC 2, the Supreme Court unanimously reversed the decision of the Divisional Court and held that the SFO has no power, under section 2(3) of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 (‘the 1987 Act’), to compel foreign companies to produce documents located outside the […]
3rd Sep 2020
A Scottish trader fighting extradition to the US on fraud charges has been granted permission to appeal his case to the UK Supreme Court. James Craig, 66, is wanted in the US in connection with a £1m share scam which allegedly saw Mr Craig create fake twitter accounts in the name of well-known market research […]
27th Aug 2020
A spokesperson for the UK Supreme Court said on Wednesday 26 August that following the assurances regarding the use of the death penalty in the case of Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh, given by US Attorney General William P. Barr, the stay preventing the sharing of information with US authorities must be lifted. The […]
19th Aug 2020
Unites States Attorney General William P. Barr, in a letter to the UK Secretary of State for the Home Department (’SSHD’) Priti Patel MP, has provided an assurance that in exchange for the UK acquiescing to a US request for mutual legal assistance (’MLA’), the US will not seek the death penalty in any prosecution […]
15th May 2020
Vijay Mallya was, on Thursday 14 May 2020, denied leave to appeal to the Supreme Court in his ongoing extradition case, thereby exhausting his final domestic avenue for challenge. Permission was refused on the basis that the case raises no issue of public importance. Mr Mallya is wanted in India to face charges of fraudulent […]
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