Helping a client in Liverpool fight extradition

UK Extradition Lawyer had a great win in the High court in a recent Romanian extradition case.

 

Judgment in the case of MB v Romania was handed down on 14 June 2024. Mr Justice Julian Knowles noted in his judgment that the appeal was brought with the permission of Hill J against the order for MB’s extradition to Romania made by District Judge Minhas on 8 March 2023.  MB’s extradition was sought to serve a combined sentence for driving and drugs offences. In his ruling in favour of MB, the appellant, Julian Knowles J stated:

 

“There are factors for and against extradition … the points made by Mr Hepburne Scott are powerful.  Having considered matters carefully and at length, I have reached the conclusion that this is a rare case where, standing back (per Love), the district judge was wrong and that (s)he should have concluded that extradition would be a disproportionate interference with the Appellant’s Article 8 rights … For these reasons, I quash the order for extradition on the basis that the district judge should have answered the Article 8 question differently and had (s)he done so (s)he would have been bound to order the Appellant’s discharge, and I so order…”

 

MB was, of course, delighted with the outcome, and is now able to complete his university degree here in the UK and to continue to work and live in the UK.