Home Office: Extradition and Fugitive Offenders (XTN Symbol Series) Files

HO 306

1950-2012

Files from the Home Office XTN (Extradition and Fugitive Offenders) symbol series, dealing with the Home Secretary's responsibility for arranging the extradition of offenders between the United Kingdom and countries with which extradition treaties have been agreed, and for the preparation of relevant legislation. The files deal with the development and application of extradition arrangements and include some case files.

In addition to providing a general description of the extradition process, these files of the C (Criminal) Division also reflect the discretionary powers conferred on the Home Secretary by the Extradition Act 1870, and the role of the Bow Street Magistrates Court. The series includes a number of files on requests for the extradition of individuals to and from the United Kingdom, both successful and unsuccessful.

The papers in this series are arranged in numerical order by departmental file number. The inclusion of a date preceding a file number (as in XTN (1960) 5/3/12) indicates that the year in which the file was created was included in the file reference number. Thus the full departmental reference of a file listed as XTN (1960) 5/3/12 would be XTN/60 5/3/12.

XTN Symbol file series

Public Record(s)

English

347 file(s)

Open unless otherwise stated

From 1988 Home Office

Topics

Treaties and alliances

Policing

Series is accruing

By means of Orders in Council made under the Extradition Act 1870, reciprocal arrangements exist for the authorised removal, in custody, of certain foreign nationals to stand trial for specified offences or to serve a prison sentence previously imposed in their native country or in the country where the offence was committed. Similar provisions for Commonwealth citizens and residents were made more recently under the Fugitive Offenders Act 1967, and material in this series relates to the drafting of the latter Act and its passage through Parliament.