The French case-law When war reshapes a country’s legal system, can extradition still be justified? A recent judgment delivered on 29 October 2025 by the Court of Appeal of Paris  (Ninth Investigating Chamber, in case no. 2024/10328) suggests that the answer is far from straightforward. The full text of the judgment is enclosed below. What makes the judgment particularly significant is the Court’s rigorous scrutiny of the guarantees  offered by Ukraine. Despite all basic requ

With judgment no. 9195 of 9 February 2026 , the Italian Supreme Court has clarified and expanded the procedural role of the Requesting State in extradition proceedings before Italian courts. The case originated from an extradition request by the People’s Republic of China which had been dismissed by the Brescia Court of Appeal. The Supreme Court quashed that decision because the Requesting State had been wrongly denied participation in the first-instance proceedings despite

In Hayes and Others v. UK, the European Court of Human Rights has, for the first time, applied the second limb of the Sanchez-Sanchez test. The case marks a subtle but significant recalibration of the Court’s stance on irreducible life sentences, and appears to distance the extradition context from the more robust protections established in Vinter v. UK.