Re Extradition Act

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date03 January 1969
Date03 January 1969
CourtQueen's Bench Division
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12 cases
  • Shannon v Fanning
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 1 January 1985
    ...558 at 574.] [5 55 I.L.R. 558 at 563.] [6Ibid. at 571.] [7 See p. 54.] *Extradition Act, 1870, In re, ex parteUNK Treasury Solicitor [1968] 3 All ER 804—Chapman J—see pp. 807 to [8 60 I.L.R. 359.] [9 See p. 49.] [10 See p. 49 at pp. 52–3.] [11 55 I.L.R. 558.] * See McMahon v Leahy and the G......
  • Re Jahre Decd. v The Norwegian State (Ministry of Finance)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 18 December 1987
    ...instinctive reaction of a common lawyer is to give the phrase "civil or commercial matter" a procedural interpretation—see, e.g. In re Extradition Act, 1870 [1969] 1 W.L.R. 12 per Chapman J. at p.15 —nevertheless English courts can and do draw distinctions as a matter of substance between c......
  • T v Secretary of State for the Home Department
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 22 May 1996
    ...had prevailed when Castioni was decided sixty years before: see per Cassels J. at page 549. In the words of Chapman J. in In re Gross [1969] 1 W.L.R. 12: "� it may still be an offence of a political character if violent measures are taken to get away from a political ordering of society ......
  • Re Norway's (State of) Application
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 16 February 1989
    ... ... The words "action, suit or proceeding" are so wide that they must have been intended to embrace all kinds of proceedings, civil or criminal. Eleven years later, the jurisdiction conferred by the Act of 1856 in civil or commercial matters was extended by section 24 of the Extradition Act 1870 to apply in relation to "any criminal matter pending in a court or tribunal in any foreign state." The Act provided that all provisions of the Act of 1856 should be construed as if the term "civil matter" included a criminal matter; it follows that these were to be classified in the same ... ...
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