Source: All England Reporter
Publisher Citation: [2012] All ER (D) 178 (May)
Neutral Citation: [2012] UKSC 20
Court: Supreme Court
Judge:

Lord Phillips P, Lady Hale, Lord Mance, Lord Kerr and Lord Wilson SCJJ
Representation Edward Fitzgerald QC, Ben Watson and Amelia Nice (instructed by Kaim Todner Solicitors Ltd) for L.
  Edward Fitzgerald QC, Ben Watson and Amelia Nice (instructed by Kaim Todner Solicitors Ltd) for P.
  Hugo Keith QC and Gary Pons (instructed by Dalton Holmes Gray) for R.
  William Clegg QC, Stephen Vullo and David Patience (instructed by Carter Moore Solicitors) for H.
  John Hardy QC and Ben Lloyd (instructed by the Crown Prosecution Service) for the judicial authorities in the first three appeals.
  Clair Dobbin (instructed by the Treasury Solicitor) for the Secretary of State in the fourth appeal.
Judgment Dates: 23 May 2012

Catchwords

Extradition - Extradition order - Appeal - Judge ordering extradition of first three appellants - Appellants seeking to appeal - High Court finding purported notices of appeal being invalid - Secretary of State ordering extradition of fourth appellant - Appellant seeking to appeal - High Court ruling notice of appeal served out of time - Whether appeal notices in first three appeals meeting requirements of statute - Whether time limits subject to qualification or exception - , - European Convention on Human Rights, art 6.

The Case

Extradition Extradition order. The Supreme Court, in allowing the appellants' appeals, held, in respect of the first three appellants, that they ought not to lose their right of appeal against extradition, in circumstances where the purported notice of appeal had not at the outset been accompanied by grounds of appeals, and, in respect of the fourth appellant, that the High Court had to have the power to permit and hear an out of time appeal which a litigant personally had done all he could to bring and notify timeously.

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