Jago Russell

  • Opinion

    EU rights to information ‘roadmap’

    12 January 2015

    Online training programme explains how to apply new directive in everyday practice.

  • News

    Effective extradition and rights must be combined

    2012-10-25T00:00:00

    by Jago Russell, chief executive of Fair Trials International

  • News

    Arresting solution

    2012-10-11T00:00:00

    By 2014 the UK must decide how far to be involved in EU crime co-operation measures, most notably the European arrest warrant (see ‘Nationwide alarm at EAW opt-out plan’). Whether the UK should continue to operate the arrest warrant system is not an easy decision and not one to be ...

  • News

    Difficult to comprehend

    2012-04-26T00:00:00

    I have followed with interest and mounting concern the Gazette’s coverage of fears about the declining standards of interpretation in UK criminal courts, most recently ‘Interpreter mistake causes trial to collapse'.

  • News

    A wider problem

    2011-11-03T00:00:00

    The case of Gary McKinnon and the unpopular US/UK treaty dominated coverage of the extradition review in the mainstream press. So it made a pleasant change to read Joshua Rozenberg’s piece in the Gazette. While I share concerns about the treatment Mr McKinnon might face if extradited, the problems with ...

  • News

    European arrest warrant needs reform

    2011-07-14T00:00:00

    I read with interest Joshua Rozenberg’s recent column on the Joint Committee on Human Rights’ call for reform of the European arrest warrant.

  • News

    Fast-track extradition: the European Arrest Warrant is being routinely misused

    2010-01-14T00:00:00

    by Jago Russella chief executive of Fair Trials International