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  Police and Justice Bill
  
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  <p>Those voting Content successfully carried an <a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/glossary/?gl=114">amendment</a> to remove 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>The extradition treaty of 1972 between the United Kingdom and the United States had been broadly reciprocal: if the United States had wanted to extradite someone from the United Kingdom, it had to meet a prima facie case to succeed; equally, if the United Kingdom had wanted to extradite someone from the United States, it had to meet the test of probable cause.</p> 
  
  <p>The new extradition treaty that was signed on 31st March 2003 by David Blunkett (as Home Secretary) and John Ashcroft (as Attorney General of the United States) â and without parliamentary scrutiny â was not reciprocal: Britain would still have to show probable cause but the United States would no longer have to meet the prima facie case.</p>
  
  <p>However, as the 2003 treaty was not ratified by the United States, the 1972 treaty should still have been in effect but in November 2003, the Extradition Act was passed by the United Kingdom with the result that the United Kingdom was ârequired to meet our side of the bargain struck by Mr Blunkett in that treaty even though there was no obligation on the United States to meet its.â The United States did not have to provide the United Kingdom with any evidence for extradition (but simply state that they had reasonable suspicion) while the United Kingdom still had to show the United States probable cause.</p>   
  
  <p>The purpose of this amendment then was to remove the United States from the relevant part of the Extradition Act 2003 so as to cause a return to 1972 terms.</p> 
  
  <p pid="b.581.222/2" pwmotiontext="divided">Their Lordships divided: Contents, 218; Not-Contents, 116.</p>
  
  
  
  
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