Subscribe RSS
Comment RSS
Brian Howes, Kerry Anne Shanks, Petitioners
January 30, 2009 | No CommentsThe petitioners challenged their extradition to the United States of America to face trial in Arizona in relation to charges of conspiring to and unlawfully importing into and distributing into the United States chemicals that are used to manufacture methamphetamine. They argued that their extradition would deprive of them of any meaningful access to their four children in the United Kingdom. The Sheriff did not consider on the facts that their proposed extradition (which was properly based in the procedures of the domestic law of the sending state and the relevant bilateral treaty) would constitute be flagrant denial or gross violation of the parents article 8 right to family life.
Full report available here.
Art. 08 Right to Private and Family Life, Extradition Law
