jurisdiction of the High Court apart from this section" and s.
11(1) requires the court to inform the person committed of "his
right to make an application for habeas corpus". This must be
taken as being a reference to both the common law and the
statutory grounds on which an application can be made. What is
important is that we are here concerned with habeas corpus and
Parliament can be assumed to have referred to habeas corpus
because it attached great importance to the protection s. 11 gave
to a person threatened with extradition.
In the absence of authority, although the applicant's right
to apply for habeas corpus should not be cut down without clear
language, I would have regarded it as being reasonably clear that
the grounds set out in s. 11(3) are only available up until the
order for return. This is in accord with the structure of the
Act which sets out a succession of stages for extradition
proceedings, the two relevant stages being quite distinct. The
first of those stages comes to an end with the committal order
and the second comes to an end with the order for return. It is
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