Jaffar v HM Prison Brixton & Anor, Court of Appeal - Administrative Court, November 25, 2003, [2003] EWHC 3077 (Admin)

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Jaffar v HM Prison Brixton & Anor, Court of Appeal - Administrative Court, November 25, 2003, [2003] EWHC 3077 (Admin)

CO/5230/2002

Neutral Citation Number: [2003] EWHC 3077 (Admin)

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE

ADMINISTRATIVE COURT

DIVISIONAL COURT

Royal Courts of Justice

The Strand

London

Tuesday 25 November 2003

B e f o r e:

THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE OF ENGLAND AND WALES

(The Lord Woolf of Barnes)

and

MR JUSTICE MACKAY

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IN THE MATTER OF AN APPLICATION FOR A WRIT

OF HABEAS CORPUS AD SUBJICIENDUM

AND

IN THE MATTER OF THE EXTRADITION ACT 1989

FOUAD KHALED JAFFAR

Applicant

- v -

THE GOVERNOR OF HM PRISON BRIXTON

and

THE GOVERNMENT OF SPAIN

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(Official Shorthand Writers to the Court)

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MR CLIVE NICHOLLS QC and MR JOHN HARDY (instructed by Messrs Cannings Connolly, London EC4M 7HQ) appeared on behalf of THE APPLICANT

MR JAMES HINES (instructed by the Crown Prosecution Service, Central Casework, London EC4M 7EX) appeared on behalf of THE RESPONDENT

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J U D G M E N TSMITH BERNAL

Tuesday 25 November 2003

THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE:

Introduction

1. This judgment relates to an application for a writ of habeas corpus by Mr Jaffar. I would like at the out...