Extradition: A contrast between events in London, Salisbury and Sicily
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Neil Beynon
In a new article, Neil Beynon considers the new UK/EU extradition provisions in light of events in London, Salisbury and Sicily, and what happens where there is no treaty between states.
“An extradition occurs where one sovereign state delivers, i.e. hands over, a person who is accused or convicted of a crime to another state for that entity to proceed with enforcement. The process involves a legal procedure dependent on what the two states have agreed to in a treaty or other perhaps lesser form of agreement. It is accepted in Public International Law (“PIL”) that, in the absence of a treaty or other form of agreement, states are under no obligation to hand over a person accused or convicted of a crime to another state.”
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