Goodyer and Gomes v Government of Trinidad and Tobago

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date29 April 2009
Neutral Citation[2009] UKHL 21
Date29 April 2009
CourtHouse of Lords
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  • Maciej Mariusz Olenski v Regional Court of Krosno, Poland
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 8 February 2016
    ...of the Republic of Cyprus [1978] 1WLR 779; Gomes v Government of Trinidad and Tobago; Goodyer v Government of Trinidad and Tobago [2009] UKHL 21; La Torre v Italy [2007] EWHC 1370 (Admin); and Government of the United States of America v Tollman and Tollman [2008] EWHC 184 (Admin). He al......
  • Saliman Barci v The Government of Albania
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 28 February 2017
    ...a Council of Europe Country, can protect an accused person from an unjust retrial: see further, Gomes and Goodyer v Trinidad and Tobago [2009] UKHL 21. 38 Notwithstanding the change in the appellant's circumstances during the lengthy period that he has lived in the United Kingdom, the Distr......
  • Tomasz Stryjecki v District Court in Lublin, Poland
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 21 December 2016
    ...Kakis v Government of the Republic of Cyprus [1973] 1 WLR 779 and Gomes and Goodyer v Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago [2009] UKHL 21. A person has fugitive status is he has knowingly placed himself beyond the reach of legal process ( Wisniewski at [59]). Before this princi......
  • Wojciech Kazaniecki v Regional Court in Torun, Poland National Crime Agency (Interested Party)
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 16 December 2016
    ...it would be neither unjust nor oppressive that he should be required to accept them." 53 In Gomes & Goodyer v Trinidad and Tobago [2009] UKHL 21, Lord Brown delivering the opinion of the Committee said: "31. The other main question discussed at some length during the argument is what approa......
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2 firm's commentaries
  • Challenging the European Arrest Warrant
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq United Kingdom
    • 11 July 2010
    ...Section 64(3). As yet, there has been no reported case of a requested person seeking to resist a European Arrest Warrant on this ground. [2009] UKHL 21. [1978] 1 WLR Para. 782. In theory, challenging the European Arrest Warrant on the basis of Article 6 ECHR should be very difficult given t......
  • European Arrest Warrant
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq United Kingdom
    • 26 November 2009
    ...illness and to prevent his suicide. Bars to extradition 2.1 Passage of time Gomes v Trinidad and Tobago; Goodyer v Trinidad and Tobago [2009] UKHL 21 The appellants appealed in conjoined appeals against the decision of a district judge that it would not be unjust or oppressive within the me......
1 books & journal articles
  • The European Arrest Warrant: The Role of Judges When Human Rights are at Risk
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage New Journal of European Criminal Law No. 2-2, June 2011
    • 1 June 2011
    ...rights NGOs had si milarly criticised Greece’s prisons in the ha rshest terms.1916 Para. 16.17 Gomes v Gover nment of Trinidad and Tobago [2009] UKHL 21, para . 35.18 CP T, 20 years of combat ing torture 19th Gene ral Re port o f the E urope an Com mitte e for t he Pre venti on of Torture a......

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