Scottish Human Rights Law Group

[2010] EWHC 168 (Admin)
The Secretary of State for the Home Department was entitled to rely on an assurance given by the authorities of Trinidad and Tobago that an individual, whose extradition had been ordered, would immediately be held in a prison that complied with his rights under the European Convention on Human Rights 1950 art.3 so that the secretary of …

by JOHN SCOTT
(an article printed in The Herald)
“US foreign policy is akin to government-sponsored terrorism these days . . . It was not a mistake that there was a huge security stand-down on September 11 last year . . . I am SOLO. I will continue to disrupt at the highest levels . . .”
These words, left on one of …

The appellant, who had served a sentence for armed robbery in the UK, appealed against a decision of a district judge that it would not be oppressive to order his extradition to face allegations in relation to a murder committed six year previously.

Case concerned appeals against extradition orders on the grounds that the EAWs did not comply with the Extradition Act 2003, s 2(4)(c) and in relation to second appellant on the ground that his removal would breach his rights under ECHR, art 8 as he needed to care for his son who suffered from Sickle Cell Anaemia.
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The applicant, charged with fraud, applied under the CPR r 52.17 to reopen a determination by the Divisional Court to send his case to the SSHD to consider a request for extradition to the United States.