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BOOK REVIEW
EXTRADITION LAW: A PRACTITIONER’S GUIDE
Third Edition
By Edward Grange and Rebecca Niblock
ISBN 978 1 91364 813 8
Legal Action Group
The access to justice charity
lag.org.uk
‘A PERFECT INTRODUCTION’ TO THE COMPLEXITIES OF EXTRADITION LAW -- NOW IN A NEW THIRD EDITION
An appreciation by Elizabeth Robson Taylor MA of Richmond Green Chambers and Phillip Taylor MBE, Head of Chambers, Reviews Editor, “The Barrister” and Mediator
From novice practitioners to the more experienced -- and indeed from duty solicitors to new appropriate judges -- or anyone involved professionally in the complexities of extradition law, this book will prove invaluable, both as an authoritative work of reference and as a tool for confident and competent practice.
Expert authors Ed Grange and Rebecca Niblock remind us in their Preface that the six-year gap between the publication of the second edition of 2015 and this brand new third edition is -- once might say -- the obvious consequence of the vote of June 2016 to leave the European Union, familiarly known as Brexit.
‘We had four and a half years to speculate on that the EU’s extradition arrangements in the EU27 would be,’ they point out, referring, in particular, to the Trade and Cooperation Act (TCA) being the final agreement -- and that 'current arrangements
replicate the features of the EAW -- European Arrest Warrant -- to a very large extent.’
As Mrs Justice Arbuthnot explains in the foreword, the approach to arrest warrants under the TCA ‘is a new area of law which will be of particular significance in the months and years to come.’
And just to confound and compound realities in the practice of this area of law, along came Coronavirus, creating general havoc and necessitating quite profound changes in the ways in which extradition cases are presented and heard.
Very reassuring therefore, is Arbuthnot J’s comment that this succinct and authoritative guide ‘packs a big punch,’ as it ‘takes you by the hand and guides you through the pitfalls that await the unwary,’ including the complexities of, for example, the case management form, legal aid, skeleton arguments and certainly much, much more. As another superb and useful initiative from the Legal Action Group -- this book ‘sets out the law for those arrested after 11pm on 31 December 2020.’
Definitive, practical, and very much up to date, this book can be considered truly indispensable for all practitioners in this field.
The date of publication of this paperback 3rd edition is cited as 10th September 2021.
Do visit the LAG website for latest editions and new titles.
BOOK REVIEW
EXTRADITION LAW: A PRACTITIONER’S GUIDE
Third Edition
By Edward Grange and Rebecca Niblock
ISBN 978 1 91364 813 8
Legal Action Group
The access to justice charity
lag.org.uk
‘A PERFECT INTRODUCTION’ TO THE COMPLEXITIES OF EXTRADITION LAW -- NOW IN A NEW THIRD EDITION
An appreciation by Elizabeth Robson Taylor MA of Richmond Green Chambers and Phillip Taylor MBE, Head of Chambers, Reviews Editor, “The Barrister” and Mediator
From novice practitioners to the more experienced -- and indeed from duty solicitors to new appropriate judges -- or anyone involved professionally in the complexities of extradition law, this book will prove invaluable, both as an authoritative work of reference and as a tool for confident and competent practice.
Expert authors Ed Grange and Rebecca Niblock remind us in their Preface that the six-year gap between the publication of the second edition of 2015 and this brand new third edition is -- once might say -- the obvious consequence of the vote of June 2016 to leave the European Union, familiarly known as Brexit.
‘We had four and a half years to speculate on that the EU’s extradition arrangements in the EU27 would be,’ they point out, referring, in particular, to the Trade and Cooperation Act (TCA) being the final agreement -- and that 'current arrangements
replicate the features of the EAW -- European Arrest Warrant -- to a very large extent.’
As Mrs Justice Arbuthnot explains in the foreword, the approach to arrest warrants under the TCA ‘is a new area of law which will be of particular significance in the months and years to come.’
And just to confound and compound realities in the practice of this area of law, along came Coronavirus, creating general havoc and necessitating quite profound changes in the ways in which extradition cases are presented and heard.
Very reassuring therefore, is Arbuthnot J’s comment that this succinct and authoritative guide ‘packs a big punch,’ as it ‘takes you by the hand and guides you through the pitfalls that await the unwary,’ including the complexities of, for example, the case management form, legal aid, skeleton arguments and certainly much, much more. As another superb and useful initiative from the Legal Action Group -- this book ‘sets out the law for those arrested after 11pm on 31 December 2020.’
Definitive, practical, and very much up to date, this book can be considered truly indispensable for all practitioners in this field.
The date of publication of this paperback 3rd edition is cited as 10th September 2021.
Do visit the LAG website for latest editions and new titles.
