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This document is an annex from a legal filing, dated August 12, 2020, containing instructions from the law firm Peters and Peters to an unnamed Counsel. The instructions outline five specific questions for an expert opinion on the extradition arrangements between the United Kingdom and the United States, focusing on procedures, bail, and potential legal and human rights-based challenges to extradition that could be relevant to Ms. Maxwell.
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| Ms Maxwell | Subject of potential extradition proceedings |
Mentioned as the individual for whom an expert opinion is sought regarding potential bars to extradition from the UK ...
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| Peters and Peters | Law firm |
The firm that issued the instructions to Counsel to prepare an expert opinion.
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Mentioned in the context of imposing bail conditions in US criminal proceedings.
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2020-08-12
Peters and Peters issued instructions to a counsel to prepare an expert opinion regarding UK-US extradition law in the context of Ms Maxwell's case.
Peters and Peters
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The country requesting extradition.
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The document explicitly states that 'Counsel is instructed' by 'Peters and Peters' to prepare an expert opinion, indicating a legal professional relationship (e.g., instructing solicitor and barrister/expert).
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Case 1:20-cr-00330-AJN Document 97-21 Filed 12/14/20 Page 17 of 29
Annex A – Questions set out in the Peters and Peters instructions dated 12 August 2020
Counsel is instructed to prepare an expert opinion in respect of the following:
(a) Outline the extradition arrangements between the United Kingdom and the United States, including an overview of the general manner in which the arrangements work and the general timeframe for UK extradition proceedings in relation to requests from the US. Address any means by which UK extradition proceedings may be expedited.
(b) Describe the manner in which a requested person may consent to extradition (at all stages of the extradition process), and the impact of any such consent on the process by which the requested person may be subsequently removed.
(c) Outline the arrangements in respect of bail pending extradition, and whether a requested person is likely to be remanded on bail pending the hearing of an extradition request by the US, and any subsequent removal of that person from the UK. In a case where a person, subject to prosecution in US criminal proceedings, flees to the UK in breach of bail conditions imposed by a US court, outline the likelihood of that person being remanded on bail in the UK pending the hearing of the extradition request, and their subsequent removal from the UK.
(d) Outline the bars to extradition, and identify those which might, based on current instructions, be conceivably open to Ms Maxwell were she to be arrested in the UK and subject to UK extradition proceedings pursuant to a request from the US, such as passage of time (section 82), forum (section 83A) and physical or mental condition (section 91). Address, in general terms, the prospects of Ms Maxwell successfully availing herself of any such bars, given the current approach in UK extradition case-law and the general thresholds required.
(e) Outline the nature of the obligation for any extradition to be compatible with the requested person’s human rights (section 87) and identify those arguments that might conceivably be open to Ms Maxwell in any future extradition proceedings, such as Article 3 and Article 6. Address, in general terms, the prospects of Ms Maxwell successfully availing herself of any such bars, given the current approach in UK extradition case-law and the general thresholds required.
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