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:  

• 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);
• R (Al-Fawwaz) v Governor of Brixton Prison [2001] UKHL 69 (definition of extradition crime in UK/US extradition treaty);
• Cando Armas v. Belgium [2005] UKHL 67 (leading case on the interpretation of the Extradition Act 2003);
• 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);
• Ferguson and Galbaransingh v USA (CA Trinidad) (forum non conveniens in extradition hearings);
• Goodyer and Gomes v 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);
• Kashamu v. Governor of Brixton Prison (No 2) [2002] QB 887 (whether the courts have the power and duty to enquire into an abuse of their processes in extradition proceedings) and R. v. Governor of Brixton Prison ex p. Kashamu (No 1), 6 October 2000 (unreported) (committal order quashed due to serious non-disclosure by the US government);
• Knowles v USA [2006] UKPC 38 (Privy Council) (right to bail in extradition cases);
• La Torre v Italy [2007] EWHC 1370 (Admin) (extradition to Italy of an alleged member of a Mafia/Camorra association);
• Lodhi v United Arab Emirates [2001] EWHC (Admin) 178 (the defendant successfully contested extradition to U.A.E.);
• Piotrowsky v Poland
• Russia v Boris Berezovsky;
• Russia v Irina Golub;
• Russia v Maruev and Chernysheva; Russia Federation v Temerko (2005, unreported) (ex-YUKOS employees successfully contesting extradition to Russia on the basis that they were sought for political reasons and that they were unlikely to receive a fair trial due to their connection with Yukos and Mikhael Khodorkovsky);
• In the matter of Roison McAliskey [1997] EWHC Admin 1145 and [1997] EWHC Admin 48 (extradition to Germany of a suspected member of the IRA on charges of a mortar attack on military barracks; extradition declined on the basis of lapse of time);
• Re Hagan and Croft (unreported, 15 December 1992) (members of a religious sect charged with conspiracy to murder a prosecution lawyer in the USA);
• 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)
• Stanley Tollman v. USA [2005] UKHL 67 (allegations of fraud; issues of disclosure and abuse of process in extradition proceedings)
• Graham Tomlins v US.

What the Directories say

Chambers & Partners, 2008

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