THE FORUM BAR PROFESSOR J.R. SPENCER, QC (Cambridge)

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THE FORUM BAR PROFESSOR J.R. SPENCER, QC (Cambridge)

The forum bar “But why can’t we try him here?” “But it’s none of their business – it all happened here!”

Origin of the forum bar exception in the Framework Decision … Dutch anxiety about German prosecutors trying to prosecute for what goes on in “koffieshops” in Amsterdam …

Forum Bar added to the UK Extradition Act in 2006 in response to pressure over the “NatWest Three” case: but amendment never brought into force

Scott-Baker Report concludes that the forum-bar provision should not be implemented …

But further pressure over the Symeou Case

Crime and Courts Act 2013 … section 50 and Schedule 20 repeals the unimplemented 2006 provision and replaces it with longer and more detailed provisions: adding new ss.19B, 19C, 19D, 19E and 19F to Part I of the Extradition Act In force as from 14 October 2013.

How to make a meal of things … (1) FWD art.4: “The executing authority may refuse to execute the European arrest warrant … [7] where the European arrest warrant relates to offences which (a) are regarded by the law of the executing Member State as having been committed in whole or in part in the territory of the Member State or in a place treated as such…” [57 words]

How [not] to make a meal of things (2) Code de procédure pénale Art alinéa 3° « L'exécution d'un mandat d'arrêt européen peut être refusée... Si les faits pour lesquels il a été émis on été commis, en tout ou en partie, sur le territoire national. » [32 words]

How to make a rather heavy meal of things … (3) Extradition Act 2003 (as re-amended), ss.19B, 19C, 19D, 19E and 19F: (1) The extradition of a person (“D”) to a category 1 territory is barred by reason of forum if the extradition would not be in the interests of justice. (2) For the purposes of this section, the extradition would not be in the interests of justice if the judge— (a) decides that a substantial measure of D's relevant activity was performed in the United Kingdom; and (b) decides, having regard to the specified matters relating to the interests of justice (and only those matters), that the extradition should not take place. (3) These are the specified matters relating to the interests of justice— (a) the place where most of the loss or harm resulting from the extradition offence occurred or was intended to occur; (b) the interests of any victims of the extradition offence; (c) any belief of a prosecutor that the United Kingdom, or a particular part of the United Kingdom, is not the most appropriate jurisdiction in which to prosecute D in respect of the conduct constituting the extradition offence; (d) were D to be prosecuted in a part of the United Kingdom for an offence that corresponds to the extradition offence, whether evidence necessary to prove the offence is or could be made available in the United Kingdom; (e) any delay that might result from proceeding in one jurisdiction rather than another; (f) the desirability and practicability of all prosecutions relating to the extradition offence taking place in one jurisdiction, having regard (in particular) to— etc etc etc etc etc etc etc 1,496 words!

So how much difference will it make? It only applies when “a substantial measure of D's relevant activity was performed in the United Kingdom”; so not available in e.g. the Symeou case. If it is potentially available, the CPS or other “designated prosecutor” can block its exercise by issuing a certificate.