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Peters & Peters Solicitors Host Inaugural Lecture with Queen Mary, University of London “The Extradition Review Team Debate – “The Future for UK Extradition” 23 November 2011, London

October 10, 2011

We are pleased to announce that Peters & Peters will be hosting a lecture on the soon to be published Extradition Review.

 

The Panel will include leading individuals from the world of Extradition, including the Right Honourable Sir Scott Baker, who has presided over the Extradition Review with David Perry QC, and Anand Doobay, consultant at Peters & Peters. Anand is the co-author of Jones and Doobay on Extradition and authors the extradition section in Blackstone’s Criminal Practice. Also on the Panel is Professor Valsamis Mitsilegas, Professor of European Criminal Law at Queen Mary, University of London and Academic Adviser to Peters & Peters Solicitors, and is contributing a chapter on EU law for Blackstone’s Criminal Practice 2012. Also joining them on the Panel are Amy Jeffress,Department of Justice Attaché, US Embassy, London and Jago Russell, Chief Executive of Fair Trials International.

 

Topics for discussion include:

                         

  • The US-UK Extradition Treaty
  • The operation of the European Arrest Warrant system
  • The power of the Secretary of State in extradition cases
  • The requirement to provide prima facie evidence
  • Forum as a bar to extradition

 

To read more or to book your place at this event, please visit QMUL Conferences and Events at http://tinyurl.com/extraditionreview