Nick Vamos has been featured in The Independent providing expert commentary on the extradition challenges arising in the Brexit landscape.
The article explores the legal complexities surrounding potential extradition proceedings involving Christian Brueckner in connection with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
Nick highlights how post-Brexit arrangements under the EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement have reshaped extradition between the UK and EU, with certain countries able to refuse the surrender of their own nationals.
Nick comments “following Brexit, the UK and EU negotiated a new extradition scheme which closely matched the European arrest warrant, however, as the UK was now outside the EU, 10 countries, including Germany, exercised the option in Article 83 of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement to impose a ‘nationality’ bar on extraditing their own citizens to the UK. In Germany, this is a matter of constitutional law, not political discretion, so there is no possibility of Breuckner being extradited to the UK unless he leaves his home country.”
Nick Vamos featured in The Independent
Nick Vamos has been featured in The Independent providing expert commentary on the extradition challenges arising in the Brexit landscape.
The article explores the legal complexities surrounding potential extradition proceedings involving Christian Brueckner in connection with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
Nick highlights how post-Brexit arrangements under the EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement have reshaped extradition between the UK and EU, with certain countries able to refuse the surrender of their own nationals.
Nick comments “following Brexit, the UK and EU negotiated a new extradition scheme which closely matched the European arrest warrant, however, as the UK was now outside the EU, 10 countries, including Germany, exercised the option in Article 83 of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement to impose a ‘nationality’ bar on extraditing their own citizens to the UK. In Germany, this is a matter of constitutional law, not political discretion, so there is no possibility of Breuckner being extradited to the UK unless he leaves his home country.”
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