Gomes v Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago – WLR Daily

Posted April 30th, 2009 in delay, extradition, law reports by sally

Gomes v Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago [2009] UKHL 21; [2009] WLR (D) 139

“Where an accused deliberately fled from a jurisdiction where his trial was pending, he was not, save in exceptional circumstances, entitled to rely, under s 82 of the Extradition Act 2003, on the passage of time due to delay on the part of the requesting state in bringing him to justice as a bar to his extradition.”

WLR Daily, 29th April 2009

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