Extradition in United Kingdom
Extradition and Mutual Assistance
Extradition from the United Kingdom
This section includes:
- Categorisation of Countries (Category 1 and Category 2)
- Special extradition arrangements
- Role of CPS, Extradition Squad, District Judge
- Arrest -Category 1
- Provisional arrest
- Warrant received
- Provisional arrest
- Request received
- Extradition Offences
- Initial Hearing -Bail
- Legal Aid
- Extradition Hearing
- Bars to Extradition (both for Category 1 & 2)
- Double jeopardy: extraneous considerations, passage of time, age, hostage-taking considerations, specialty, physical or mental condition, earlier extradition, human rights and ?death penalty
- Secretary of State
- Appeals
- Consent to Extradition
- Post-extradition matters
Part C: Extradition to the UK
•Category 1
•Category 2
Police Powers
This section includes:
- Warrants and Orders
- Search and seizure without warrant [including delivery of seized property]
- Treatment following arrest
Mutual Assistance
- Main Entry: Mutual Assistance and its History
- The statutory scheme.
Definition of Extradition
In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Extradition :
The surrender by one state to another of a person accused of committing an offence in the latter. Extradition from the UK relates to surrender to foreign states (Compare fugitive offender) and is governed by the Extradition Act 1989. There must be an *extradition treaty between the UK and the state requiring the surrender. The offence alleged must be a crime in the UK as well as in the requesting state, it must be both covered by the treaty and within the list of extraditable offences contained in the Act itself, and it must not be of a political character.
See also double criminality.
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