Extradition

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Doughty Street Chambers' Extradition Team comprises a set of specialist extradition practitioners who have appeared before the House of Lords, Privy Council, High Court and Magistrates' courts, and in courts around the world, in many of the leading extradition cases.

Members of the Extradition Team also publish books and articles in this area, including the Extradition Law Handbook published by Oxford University Press and the Extradition Law Reports (Southside Legal Publishers).

Team Members

Cases

Members of our team have appeared prominently in high-profile extradition cases, particularly those involving terrorist suspects and fundamental issues of human rights, including the following cases:  

• Gomes v Goodyer and Government of Trinidad and Tobago [2007] EWHC 2012 (Admin) (whether delay and prison conditions in Trinidad were such as to render return oppressive and/or in breach of Article 3 ECHR);
• Piotrowski v Poland: [2007] EWHC 1982 (Admin), 2007 WL 2425669: Unfairness caused by passage of time, fair trial; Polish authority challenged the defendant's discharge by the DJ on 4 charges & challenged the guideline authority on prejudice arising out of delay;
• USA v Raissi [2007] EWHC 243 (Admin) (whether ex gratia payments should be made to Algerian pilot falsely accused of involvement in the September 11th hijackings)
• La Torre v Italy [2007] EWHC 1370 (Admin) (extradition to Italy of an alleged member of a Mafia/Camorra association);
• Gary McKinnon v. Government of the USA, Secretary of State for the Home Dept: The Times [2007] EWHC 762 (Admin): see 'Current cases' (with QC);
• Da An Chen v. Romania [2006] EWHC 1752 (Admin) (Whether the defendant's extradition was barred by the passage of time or by the fact that he was tried and sentenced in absentia, and had not deliberately absented himself from his trial);
• Babar Ahmad and Haroon Rashid Aswat v. USA [2006] EWHC 2927 (Admin) (High profile extradition case involving defendants accused of taking part in terrorist activities. These cases were the first of their kind under the Extradition Act 2003, dealing, among other matters with potential detention at Guantanamo Bay, rendition and Special Administrative Measures);
• Knowles v USA [2006] UKPC 38 (Privy Council) (right to bail in extradition cases);

What the Directories say

Chambers & Partners, 2008

Edward Fitzgerald QC is identified as a leader in the field in London (Band 1)