Dalton Holmes Gray: court cases and practice areas

Practice areas

Extradition18
Public and administrative law15
Civil liberties and human rights3

Courts

Supreme Court1
High Court17

Counsel most often instructed

Joel Smith3

Judgments by year

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Cases later courts cite most

Cases Dalton Holmes Gray acted in that later judgments cite most often.

Date	Case	Cited by
23 May 2012	Lukaszewski v The District Court in Torun, Poland [2012] UKSC 20 · Supreme Court An extradition appeal must be filed and some notice of it given to every respondent within the statutory permitted period. The statute does not require service…	52
24 Feb 2014	Aleksynas & Ors v Minister of Justice, Republic of Lithuania & Anor [2014] EWHC 437 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court An extradition court has a limited implied abuse-of-process jurisdiction. Bad faith by the requesting authorities is required; confusion, inadequate…	11
19 Mar 2008	McLean v High Court of Dublin, Ireland [2008] EWHC 547 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court Extradition is incompatible with articles 2 or 3 where substantial grounds establish a real risk to life or of ill-treatment in the receiving state and, where…	3
11 May 2022	OLEGAS BAZYS & Anor. v THE VILNIUS COUNTY COURT, REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA & Anor. [2022] EWHC 1094 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court In extradition proceedings, extradition must be refused where substantial grounds establish a real risk of treatment contrary to article 3 of the European…	3
9 Feb 2011	Wrobel v Poland [2011] EWHC 374 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court Under section 25 of the Extradition Act 2003, extradition may be oppressive where the evidence establishes a very high risk that the requested person will…	3

Recent cases

Date	Case	Cited by
29 Oct 2025	Abel Mohamed Badie v Government of Kuwait & Ors [2025] EWHC 2783 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court Statutory extradition appeals under the Extradition Act 2003 are appeals by way of review, not rehearings. An appellate court should not interfere with factual…
2 Jul 2025	Ilirian Zeqaj v Republic of Albania [2025] EWHC 1670 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court For the passage-of-time bar under section 82 of the Extradition Act 2003, the relevant question under the injustice limb is whether delay has made a fair trial…
26 Jun 2024	Doru Constantin Giana v Court of Roman, Romania [2024] EWHC 1613 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court When physical disability is relied on under section 25 of the Extradition Act 2003, the court must adopt an intensely fact-specific approach. It must identify…	2
7 Dec 2022	Central District Court of Buda (Hungary) v Marina Horvath [2022] EWHC 3484 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court In an extradition appeal involving Article 8 family-life rights, appellate intervention is justified where the lower court makes a recognisable public-law…	2
11 May 2022	OLEGAS BAZYS & Anor. v THE VILNIUS COUNTY COURT, REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA & Anor. [2022] EWHC 1094 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court In extradition proceedings, extradition must be refused where substantial grounds establish a real risk of treatment contrary to article 3 of the European…	3
9 Dec 2021	Nemeth v Hungarian Judicial Authorities [2021] EWHC 3366 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court In extradition appeals, permission should be granted where the proposed appeal is reasonably arguable after the court takes a step back and considers whether…
24 Aug 2021	Marian Cornea v Tribunal Arges, Romania [2021] EWHC 2373 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court On an application for bail in a conviction extradition case, the High Court considers bail afresh after refusal in the magistrates’ court. There is no…
24 Feb 2017	Vilionis v Vilnius County Court Lithuania & Anor [2017] EWHC 336 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court In extradition proceedings, passage of time will bar extradition under section 14 of the Extradition Act 2003 only where extradition would be unjust or…	2
15 Jun 2016	Iftimie v Romanian Judicial Authority [2016] EWHC 1637 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court An extradition warrant must provide clear and internally consistent information about whether the requested person appeared at trial and, if not, whether an…
24 Feb 2014	Aleksynas & Ors v Minister of Justice, Republic of Lithuania & Anor [2014] EWHC 437 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court An extradition court has a limited implied abuse-of-process jurisdiction. Bad faith by the requesting authorities is required; confusion, inadequate…	11
20 Feb 2013	Semionovas v Prosecutor General's Office of the Republic of Lithuania [2013] EWHC 445 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court An extradition warrant remains valid despite an apparent error in stating the number of offences where its factual particulars identify the substance of the…
19 Jul 2012	Klimeto, R (On the Application Of) v City of Westminster Magistrates Court [2012] EWHC 2051 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court Section 142 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 does not apply directly to extradition proceedings. Nor is it imported generally through the provisions of the…	1

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