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Lord Wolfson of Tredegar (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 18 March 2026

Debate

Crime and Policing Bill

Contribution

I am asking a question. It seems that only three noble Lords are entitled to speak in this debate. New paragraph (b) says that “the person would be so entitled unless a court in the territory concerned were to decide that they deliberately absented themselves from their trial”. Is it not the case, therefore, that new paragraph (b) means that our courts could decide that the person had not deliberately absented themselves, and extradite the person? But the foreign court could then say that the person had deliberately absented themselves and deny them the retrial. In other words, I ask the Minister, is it not the case that new paragraph (b) introduces the very vice the Supreme Court was at pains to exclude in its decision?

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