DSR 11C
5 It is acknowledged that the abolition of the
prima facie case requirement requires a greater
trust in the requesting State but it is clear that I behreen,
onger other European countries the European
amonper
Convention on Extradition (which has no prima facie
case requirement) has worked well for nearly
thirty years.
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On the hand
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Other European countries have experienced
(in exhaditing Mugitives from the United Kingdom and this considerable problems in meeting the prima facie
rob.
case requirement because of the incompatibility
between our common law system and their civil
law-systeme. If the requirement is removed,
has been
largely due
to
we would expect to accede to the European Convention
on Extradition and for our extradition procedures
with the rest of Europe to work considerably more Smoothly
easy. In the case of
In the case of other countries with whom
we have extradition treaties which are more or less
moribund, we propose to review all those treaties
following the passage of the legislation and in
many cases to terminate the treaty and in
future deal with any future extradition requests
(those
from from countries on an ad hoc basis with a treaty.
untri
It is intended taht the prima facie requirement
would still apply to any ad hoc arrangements.
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