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The 2003 UK–US Extradition Treaty After Lynch: Political Pressure, Evidence on Balance, Investigatory Asymmetries and the Forum Bar

Published on: 28 August 2024

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UK-US extradition treaty criticism

On 22 August 2024, Conservative MP David Davis and fellow Tory, former MP Jacob Rees-Mogg, argued that the 2003 agreement enabling the two countries to extradite their nationals should be scrapped or rewritten following Lynch’s fatal yachting accident. The Autonomy software founder was ultimately acquitted of fraud in the US in June, having been sent from the UK to face trial in 2023 after a protracted bid to have the case heard in the English courts. Lynch lost his life when the yacht he was on went down off the Italian coast on 26 August 2024. Lawyers told Law360 that prominent, widely reported matters such as Lynch’s tend to spark claims that the extradition pact treats British citizens unfairly, though there is little proof to support that view. According to Jago Russell, a partner at Boutique Law, baseless allegations of asymmetry in the UK-US extradition regime have become the knee‑jerk political reaction to US requests that draw the wider public eye. Davis told GB News he would campaign to overturn the treaty in tribute to Lynch, who drowned after a storm sank the superyacht he had hired to mark his courtroom success in the US...

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