The Weekly Law Reports
[1962] 3 WLR 1013
[HOUSE OF LORDS.]
SCHTRAKS APPELLANT; AND GOVERNMENT OF ISRAEL AND OTHERS RESPONDENTS.
[ON APPEAL FROM REGINA v. GOVERNOR OF BRIXTON PRISON, Ex parte SCHTRAKS.]
1962 July 25,
26,
30,
31;
Sept. 6.
Sept. 6.
VISCOUNT RADCLIFFE, LORD REID, LORD EVERSHED, LORD JENKINS and LORD HODSON.
Extradition
— Extent of treaty
— “Territory”
— Israel
— Non-recognition of Israel's sovereignty over Jerusalem
— De facto authority recognised
— Whether Jerusalem “territory” of Israel Government
—
Israel (Extradition) Order, 1960 (S.I. 1960 No. 1660).
Extradition
— Habeas corpus
— Appeal
— House of Lords
— Ambit of jurisdiction to review magistrate's decision
— Fresh evidence
— Whether admissible
— Admissibility a question of jurisdiction
— Whether offence political.
Extradition
— Offence of a political character
— Meaning
—
Extradition Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 52), s. 3 (1).