Originally Posted by
PhilH
I believe any foreign government (outside of the EU for which I believe special rules apply under EU law) which wishes to extradite a UK citizen from the UK should provide prima facie evidence for the crime they have supposedly committed, and allow that UK citizen to be able to know and understand the evidence against him and provide a defence to it, before they are extradited off to some foreign jurisdiction. Full stop.
And if prima facie evidence is provided (which may be voluminous for white collar crime) and a defence given, who's to decide ? Doesn't that sound like a trial here in the UK in circumstances where perhaps only foreign laws have been broken ?