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.

The ECtHR miss the chance to clarify the extent of the revised approach to Article 3 issues regarding the imposition of life imprisonment...

Cass., Sez. Fer., sentenza n. 34466 del 24.08.2021 (dep. 16.09.2021), ric. Damian L’Accordo sugli scambi commerciali e la cooperazione...

Con sentenza del 12 maggio 2021 nel caso C-505/19 (WS), la Corte di Giustizia ha chiarito che gli Stati parte alla Convenzione di...

With a judgement on 3 December 2019, the Italian Court of Cassation upheld the decision of the Court of Appeal of Bologna to grant the...

The first rule in extradition law: if you have known for years that you’re wanted abroad to face criminal charges and no extradition...

In a landmark decision, the German Federal Constitutional Court ruled on 4.12.2019 that the Higher Regional Court’s decision to declare...

The matter has been under the public eye for years, but we are now starting to see just how devastating and far-reaching the consequences...

On 13 June 2019, the Italian newspaper La Repubblica published on its website a video of 69 years old Carlos Luis Malatto, former...

We are dealing with difficult times. The rule of law and the protection of fundamental rights are under great pressure in a strongly...

Male captus, bene detentus. È questa, nella sostanza, la posizione della Corte di assise di appello di Milano nell’ordinanza adottata il...