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  Police and Justice Bill - Extradition to the USA
  
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  The majority of MPs rejected a house of Lords <a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/glossary/?gl=114">amendment</a> that would have meant that the United States would still have to meet a prima facie case to extradite someone from the United Kingdom. This would have been implemented by removing the United States from the list of Part 2 Territories under the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition_Act_2003">Extradition Act 2003</a>.</p>
  
  <p>Those MPs in the minority were trying to ensure that extradition to the USA would only occur after a prima facie case had been brought against an individual and the accused had been given an opportunity to contest that evidence in a UK court.  They were acting in this way because the United States had thus far failed to ratify the 2003 extradition treaty that was signed on 31st March 2003 yet because Britain had passed the Extradition Act in November 2003, Britain now had extradition obligations towards the United States that were not reciprocated. The MPs in the minority, therefore, were urging a return to the prima facie requirement (which was more onerous for the United States) as a means to persuade the United States to ratify the treaty which would have made extradition proceedings largely reciprocal.</p>
  
  
  
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