EU arrest warrant contested in European Court of Human Rights today

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03/02/2010 00:47

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1247893/Garry-Mann-European-Court-Human-Rights-hears-football-fan-extradition-case.html

Read through the article to the end and draw comparisons

Last month Lord Justice Moses, sitting with Mr Justice Hickinbottom, said Mr Mann's apparent injustice did not stem from what was contended to have been an unfair and unlawful hearing.

He had instead been deprived of proper legal assistance 'by two sets of lawyers in two separate jurisdictions on two distinct occasions'.

Lord Justice Moses said the High Court was powerless to act because it had no jurisdiction.

But he expressed the hope that either the European Court of Human Rights would intervene or the diplomatic authorities in the UK or Portugal 'can strive to achieve some measure of justice for Mr Mann, a justice of which he as been so signally deprived by those on whom he had previously relied'.

wanderer


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03/02/2010 00:48

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According to Det Con Rutter, there was no adequate and proper interpretation and Mr Mann did not understand most of the proceedings.

But Mr Mann's Portuguese lawyer failed to file the proper documents for an appeal in the correct manner within the required time.

In June 2004 Mr Mann was permitted to leave Portugal through an 'order for voluntary departure'.





Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1247893/Garry-Mann-European-Court-Human-Rights-hears-football-fan-extradition-case.