International Defence Lawyers

How the team is organised

Extradition and Interpol matters rarely sit in one jurisdiction. A notice is held in Lyon, the prosecution is in the requesting state, the arrest happens wherever the person is travelling, and the extradition hearing takes place in a fourth. The team is put together to cover that spread: Israeli proceedings under the Extradition Law 5714-1954, submissions to the Commission for the Control of Interpol’s Files, European Arrest Warrant defence within the EU, applications to the European Court of Human Rights, and the sanctions and immigration questions that travel with these cases.

In practice a file is usually run by two people rather than one — counsel handling the Israeli proceedings, and counsel handling whichever foreign forum is decisive. The reason is evidential: what is established before the Commission is material in the extradition court, and findings in the extradition court strengthen the Interpol submission. Splitting the two and running them separately is how the advantage is lost.

Related: extradition defence, CCF applications, human rights defence.