The Weekly Law Reports
[2007] 1 WLR 1730
Queen's Bench Division
Norris v Government of the United States of America and others (Goldshield Group plc and another intervening)
[2007] EWHC 71 (Admin)
2006 Oct 17,
18;
2007 Jan 25
2007 Jan 25
Auld LJ and Field J
Extradition
— Extradition crime
— Jurisdiction
— Defendant charged in United States of America with conspiracy to fix prices and obstructing United States investigators
— Price fixing charge not requiring dishonesty
— Whether conduct constituting common law conspiracy to defraud
— Whether secrecy of agreement supplying ingredient of dishonesty necessary for common law offence
— Whether common law offence sufficiently clear and ascertainable
— Whether requirement that ingredients of United States offence and English offence correspond
— Whether obstruction allegation requiring transposition of locality and institutions
— Whether extradition offences
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Extradition Act 2003 (c 41), s. 137(2)