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Proceeding contribution from Jacob Rees-Mogg (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Monday, 5 December 2011. It occurred during Backbench debate on UK Extradition Arrangements.


UK Extradition Arrangements

There are, indeed, but that is of a completely different order of magnitude: one gets a little off one's sentence if one pleads guilty early—rather than being threatened with hundreds of years against a week in a golf club. That does not happen under the British system, but we know that it happened to the man who turned the equivalent of Queen's evidence against Conrad Black. We know that it happens in the United States system, but we are willing to risk British subjects going over there.


Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
537 c118 
Session
2010-12
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Subjects
Administration of justice Arrest warrants Extradition Human rights USA
Link
View this Proceeding contribution on www.publications.parliament.uk