The US-UK extradition treaty

The US-UK extradition treaty
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Home Affairs Committee
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2012-03-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780215043641

US-UK extradition Treaty : Twentieth report of session 2010-12, Vol. 1: Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written Evidence

The human rights implications of UK extradition policy

The human rights implications of UK extradition policy
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Total Pages: 78
Release: 2011-06-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780108473500

The Joint Committee on Human Rights concludes that the current statutory framework does not provide effective protection for human rights. The rights most often relevant to extradition are: prohibition of torture; fair trial; liberty and security; private and family life; and prohibition of discrimination. The Committee calls on the Government to spell out detailed safeguards in the statutory framework. Parliament should be asked to commence the "most appropriate forum" safeguard in the Police and Criminal Justice Act 2006 and that a requirement for the requesting country to show a prima facie case or similarly robust evidential threshold should be introduced in extradition cases. The most appropriate forum safeguard would require the judge to consider whether it is in the interests of justice for the individual to be tried in the requesting country - and to refuse the extradition request if it is not. The committee also calls for negotiated changes to the European Arrest Warrant, a review of the provision of legal representation. The committee also concludes that the power of the Secretary of State to refuse extradition to non-EU countries should not be extended. The powers of the judge in an extradition case should instead ensure adequate protection of rights.

Terrorism, Criminal Law and Politics

Terrorism, Criminal Law and Politics
Author: Julia Jansson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2019-07-23
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0429581513

Recent atrocities have ensured that terrorism and how to deal with terrorists legally and politically has been the subject of much discussion and debate on the international stage. This book presents a study of changes in the legal treatment of those perpetrating crimes of a political character over several decades. It most centrally deals with the political offence exception and how it has changed. The book looks at this change from an international perspective with a particular focus on the United States. Interdisciplinary in approach, it examines the fields of terrorism and political crime from legal, political science and criminological perspectives. It will be of interest to a broad range of academics and researchers, as well as to policymakers involved in creating new anti-terrorist policies.

Bringing International Fugitives to Justice

Bringing International Fugitives to Justice
Author: David A. Sadoff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 725
Release: 2016-12-24
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107129281

A novel and robust examination of all policy means and their lawfulness for recovering fugitives abroad via extradition or its alternatives.