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UK Supreme Court clarifies Article 8 ECHR in extradition: discretionary foreign early-release prospects receive little weight; courts recognise only bare possibility, save in rare, agreed-evidence cases.

Published on: 11 June 2025

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Andrysiewicz (Appellant) v Circuit Court in Lodz, Poland (Respondent) [2025] UKSC 23

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On 23 September 2020, the Circuit Court in Lodz issued a request for the extradition of Ewa Andrysiewicz to Poland so that she could serve a two-year custodial sentence arising from four linked fraud offences committed between 2007 and 2008. That sentence had initially been suspended for five years but was later activated in full after she failed to comply with the suspension conditions. Following her arrest in London on 21 January 2023, Andrysiewicz contested extradition, arguing that her removal would be a disproportionate interference with her right to respect for private and family life under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). To advance her Article 8 case, she relied on the prospect that, if an application under the Polish Penal Code succeeded, she might not be required to serve the remaining portion of the sentence. The district judge nevertheless ordered her extradition to Poland to serve the two-year term, and the High Court dismissed her appeal...

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