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NLJ this week: Proving dual criminality in international organised crime

10 February 2023
Issue: 8012 / Categories: Legal News , Extradition , Criminal
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The High Court has redrawn the scope of ‘criminal participation’, in a recent extradition case. 

Writing in this week’s NLJ, George Hepburne Scott, barrister at Church Court Chambers, and Giovanna Fiorentino, duty solicitor and team leader at Lansbury Worthington Solicitors, take an in-depth look at the case, Fedorowicz.

Their article covers dual criminality—one difficulty for the CPS in the case was that none of the appellant’s criminal cannabis-exporting conduct had taken place in Lithuania. Much of the legal argument concerned a conversation in a car park in Vilnius.

Hepburne Scott and Fiorentino also cover the court’s reliance on the Palermo Convention. They write that the decision in Fedorowicz ‘will no doubt inform future prosecutors when they consider appropriate charges in the ever-expanding field of international organised crime’. 

Read the full article here.

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