Government of the United States of America v. Bowe

Abstract

Extradition — Extraditable offence — Whether specific reference required in treaty to render offence extraditable — Drug-related offence — Whether conspiracy to commit a drug-related offence extraditable — Inference from other drug-related offences in treaty — Extradition request from the United States of America to the Commonwealth of the Bahamas — United Kingdom-United States Extradition Treaty, 1931, Article 3 — United Kingdom Extradition Act 1870

Relationship of international law and municipal law — Treaties — Whether exchange of notes requires incorporation into domestic law to be effective — United Kingdom-United States Extradition Treaty, 1931 — Whether Exchange of Notes between the Bahamas and the United States purporting to give continued effect to Treaty effective

State succession — Treaties — Extradition treaty — Whether newly independent State succeeds to rights and obligations under extradition treaty — United Kingdom-United States Extradition Treaty, 1931 — Extradition request from United States to the Commonwealth of the Bahamas — Exchange of Notes between the Commonwealth of the Bahamas and the United States of America, 1978 — Whether sufficient for continued effect of treaty

Treaties — Duration — State succession — Extradition treaty — Whether binding upon newly independent State — Whether exchange of notes between newly independent State and other party to treaty sufficient to continue treaty in force — The law of the Bahamas