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SUBJECT: MEETING TO REVIEW COMMONWEALTH EXTRADITION
ARRANGEMENTS
1. At their meeting in Barbado's in 1980 Commonwealth
Law Ministers reviewed the working of the 1966
Commonwealth Scheme for the rendition of fugitive offenders.
The Ministers concluded that the Scheme was working well
on the whole but a number of matters were identified as
calling for further reveiw. Proposals for amendments to
the Scheme were then prepared by Professor I A Shearer
of Australia, and I enclose a copy of his Consultative
Document.
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2. As has been indicated in earlier correspondence
(except to the Falkland Islands and BAT), Commonwealth
Governments have agreed that the review of the Scheme
would best be undertaken at a separate meeting in London
on 22-26 November 1982 rather than at the next
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Commonwealth Law Ministers' meeting in Sri Lanka in
February 1983. The London meeting is expected to be
attended by appropriate officials who do not normally
attend Law Ministers' meetings; a number of Attorneys
General from independent Commonwealth countries will also
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