The appellant was arrested under a conviction warrant which stated that in his absence he had been tried and convicted in Romania and sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment. He appealed against an order for his extradition contending that because he had a right to a re-trial in Romania the warrant should have been drafted as an accusation warrant and was therefore invalid.
Held: This submission was rejected.
Scott Baker LJ, delivering the only judgment, considered that it was necessary to follow carefully and chronologically the structure of the 2003 Act and that it was liable to be misleading to pick out observations by judges concerned with earlier legislation.
Scott Baker LJ, Maddison J
[2009] EWHC 89 (Admin)
Bailii
Extradition Act 2003
England and Wales
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Cited – Konecny v District Court In Brno-Venkov, Czech Republic SC 27-Feb-2019
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Extradition
Updated: 10 January 2022; Ref: scu.280424
