| Source: | All England Reporter |
| Publisher Citation: | [2010] All ER (D) 287 (Feb) |
| Court: | Queen's Bench Division, Divisional Court |
| Judge: | Owen and Calvert Smith JJ (judgment delivered extempore) |
| Representation | The appellant appeared in person. |
| Rebecca Hill (instructed by the Crown Prosecution Service) for the respondent. | |
| Judgment Dates: | 25 February 2010 |
Catchwords
Extradition - Request for extradition - Bar to extradition - Appellant convicted of offences in requesting state in 1998 and sentenced to term of imprisonment - Appellant coming to United Kingdom and not serving sentence - Arrest made pursuant to European arrest warrant issued in 2008 - Information from respondent causing appellant's legal representatives to abandon proposed defence at extradition hearing - Judge making extradition order - Whether appellant's extradition barred by passage of time - Whether barred by extraneous considerations - Whether extradition constituting breach of appellant's human rights - ss 13, 14 - European Convention on Human Rights, art 3.
The Case
Extradition Request for extradition. The Divisional Court dismissed the appellant's appeal against an order for his extradition where, in all the circumstances and applying settled principles, there was no basis on which that order was to be quashed.
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