Delays have 'disfigured' the extradition process
– SIR JOHN THOMAS, PRESIDENT OF THE QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISIONIt is necessary to emphasise the importance of finality in litigation and the particular importance of that principle in extradition cases because of the public interest in an efficient process, the need to adhere to international obligations and to avoid a recurrence of the delays which have so disfigured the extradition process in the past and to which successive appeals over time can subject it.
Radical cleric Abu Hamza awaits terror trial
Abu Hamza was in custody in New York today awaiting trial on charges of bombing two United States embassies in Africa.
Radical cleric Abu Hamza appears in front of US court
Radical cleric Abu Hamza has appeared in front of a New York court following his extradition from the UK. He did not enter a plea.
Abu Hamza extradition to the United States gets underway
Abu Hamza and four other terror suspects have left prison and are on route to the US where they face terror charges.