The main dispute of the US-UK extradition agreement derives from the fact the US has to show 'reasonable suspicion' however the UK has to show 'probable cause'.
However some argue there is no difference namely Sir Scott Baker who's reports stated: "In our opinion there is no significant difference between the probably cause test and the reasonable suspicion test"
However, critics of the treaty say it is much easier to extradite people from the UK than the US because the US does not need to present evidence to a British court.
Conversely, the UK must provide "sufficient evidence to establish probable cause" in order to secure the extradition of an American citizen.
The other argument is the agreement was post 9-11 for the speedy extradition of terrorists but between 2003 and 2009 only one of 63 extraditions were terrorists.
To be honest I don't really know whether the extradition agreement is one sided, I feel it might have something to do with the respective cases being so high profile.
Perhaps the UK's punishment of crime in comparison to the US is also an issue, sentence lengths in the UK generally tend to be a lot less.
"between January 2004 and July 2011 there were 130 requests by the US for people to be extradited from the UK, compared with 54 requests from the UK to the US."
"the US had never denied a UK extradition request"
However some argue there is no difference namely Sir Scott Baker who's reports stated: "In our opinion there is no significant difference between the probably cause test and the reasonable suspicion test"
However, critics of the treaty say it is much easier to extradite people from the UK than the US because the US does not need to present evidence to a British court.
Conversely, the UK must provide "sufficient evidence to establish probable cause" in order to secure the extradition of an American citizen.
The other argument is the agreement was post 9-11 for the speedy extradition of terrorists but between 2003 and 2009 only one of 63 extraditions were terrorists.
To be honest I don't really know whether the extradition agreement is one sided, I feel it might have something to do with the respective cases being so high profile.
Perhaps the UK's punishment of crime in comparison to the US is also an issue, sentence lengths in the UK generally tend to be a lot less.