The applicant had been arrested and resisted his extradition to the Czech Republic saying that the offence was so minor as not to justify extradition.
Held: The offence was equivalent to obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception, with a value of pounds 40.00. It was not a serious offence. However the court could also take into account other facts about the extraditee including his record. In this case the offence had been committed whilst he was released from a much longer sentence and on licence. That made the offence sufficiently serious to support extradition.
Judges:
Lord Woolf, Goldring J
Citations:
Times 12-Jul-2003, [2003] EWHC 1418 (Admin)
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Statutes:
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Extradition
Updated: 06 August 2022; Ref: scu.184475
