Jaffar v Home Secretary & Government of Spain

Resisting extradition to Spain of a British citizen facing theft and fraud charges arising from commercial dealings in the Middle East, Spain and UK in the 1980s and 1990s.

Proceedings in three jurisdictions (Spain, UK and the ECtHR) raise human rights, procedural and extradition grouns of challenge to the Home Secretary’s extradition decision.

The substantive judicial review was heard in the Divisional Court in March 2013, while the ECtHR application remains pending.