Examples of European arrest warrant in a sentence
European arrest warrant issued by the investigating judge of the German Federal Supreme Court on 13 Aug.
Lord Mance has identified a possible tension between this approach and that of Lord Hope in the same case where the latter said, at paras 20, 24, that the introduction of the European arrest warrant system was highly controversial and that there were limits to the principle that extradition treaties and statutes should receive “a broad and generous construction”, because the liberty of the subject was at stake.
Furthermore, it was to accord rights not provided for in the ECHR, for example to persons in respect of whom a European arrest warrant has been issued.
In terms of the Ministry’s role in issuing a warrant, the actual request for a person’s surrender is in the initiative of the public prosecutor (the police chief) who will prepare a draft European arrest warrant and apply to a court for remand in custody in absentia, with a view to issuing the warrant.
Accordingly, the European arrest warrant will allow wanted persons to be handed over directly from one judicial authority to another.
The surrender of people in order to conduct criminal proceedings or to execute a court judgement which has entered into force takes place within the EU on the basis of the Council Framework Decision of 13 June 2002 on the European arrest warrant and the surrender procedures between the Member States (2002/584/JHA).
In this vein he following instruments will be discussed: Directive 2013/48/EU on the right of access to a lawyer in criminal proceedings and in European arrest warrant proceedings and the right to have a third party informed upon deprivation of liberty and to communicate with third persons and with consular authorities while deprived of liberty.
Furthermore, the setting up of a JIT does not prevent the use of instruments with a different purpose or scope (particularly the surrender of a person, as in the European arrest warrant).
The executing judicial authority may refuse to execute a European arrest warrant in respect of an offence covered by an amnesty in the executing Member State where that Member State was competent to prosecute the offence under its own criminal law.
This Directive lays down minimum rules concerning the rights of suspects and accused persons in criminal proceedings and of persons subject to proceedings pursuant to Council Framework Decision 2002/584/JHA 115 ("European arrest warrant proceedings") to have access to a lawyer and to have a third party informed of the deprivation of liberty.