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Mon 06 Jun 2010Warrant allows investigation in two or more EU states, conference told
A PERSON could be investigated across two or more jurisdictions for the same offence under the European Arrest Warrant process, a conference in Trinity College has heard.
Prof Dermot Walsh of the University of Limerick told TCD law school’s conference on criminal law at the weekend, that a prosecution blocked due to procedural or evidential difficulties in the state where the offence was committed could be pursued in another state where the rules were different. This opened up the danger of forum shopping, he said.
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