Seddon, R. v, Court of Appeal - Criminal Division, March 10, 2009, [2009] EWCA Crim 483

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Seddon, R. v, Court of Appeal - Criminal Division, March 10, 2009, [2009] EWCA Crim 483

SMITH BERNAL WORDWAVE

Case No. 2008/2972/D1

Neutral Citation Number: [2009] EWCA Crim 483

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL

CRIMINAL DIVISION

Royal Courts of Justice

Strand

London, WC2A 2LL

Date: Tuesday, 10 March 2009

B e f o r e:

THE VICE PRESIDENT

(LORD JUSTICE HUGHES)

MR JUSTICE KING

HIS HONOUR JUDGE GORDON

(Sitting as a Judge of the CACD)

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R E G I N A

NEIL SEDDON

APPEAL UNDER S.13 ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE ACT 1960

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Mr C Nicholls QC and Mr C Daw appeared on behalf of the Appellant

Mr J Lewis QC and Mr n Booth appeared on behalf of the Crown

Mr D Perry QC appeared on behalf of the Secretary of State

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J U D G M E N T

1. THE VICE PRESIDENT: The issue in this appeal is the extent of the rule of specialty which is preserved by the Extradition Act 2003 in relation to inward extraditions from category 1, that is to say European Union territories. What is in question principally is the construction of section 146(3)(b) of the 2003 Act.

2. Some time ago in October 2001 this defendant pleaded guilty in the Crown Court at Minshull Street in Manchester to the offence of blackmail. Sentence was postponed pending the trial of one or more co-accused. During that interval the defendant absconded to Spain a...

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