British Court Holds Fugitive Extraditable and Long Delay of Extradition Not Sufficient Where Attributable in Part to Fugitive

In 1994, a British court upheld the extradition of a person who was charged in Hong Kong with accepting bribes between 1981 and 1982 and denied his application for habeas corpus, which was based on the long delay that occurred between the criminal charges and the extradition proceedings...(more)