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Case Nos: AC-2023-LON-003422 and AC-2023-LON-003430
Royal Courts of Justice
Strand, London, WC2A 2LL
Before :
LORD JUSTICE POPPLEWELL
and
MR JUSTICE JOHNSON
Between :
ABEL MOHAMED BADIE | Appellant |
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(1)GOVERNMENT OF KUWAIT (2) SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT | Respondents |
Joel Smith KC, Ben Keith & Natasha Draycott (instructed by Dalton Holmes Gray) for the Appellant
Rachel Barnes KC & Rebecca Hadgett (instructed by Crown Prosecution Service) for the First Respondent
Kathryn Howarth (instructed by Government Legal Department) for the Second Respondent
Hearing dates: 14 - 15 October 2025
Approved Judgment
This judgment was handed down by release to The National Archives on 29 October 2025 at 10.30am.
LORD JUSTICE POPPLEWELL:
This is the judgment of the court to which we have both contributed.
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- Introduction
- The extradition offences and a brief procedural history
- The SSHD’s decision
- The law on the approach to these appeals
- Ground 1; risk of breach of article 3 due to prison conditions
- The Judge’s judgment
- Analysis and conclusions
- Ground 2; risk of breach of article 3 due to torture
- Ground 4: Article 8
- Ground 5: Section 91 (mental health)
- Ground 6: abuse of process
- The law
- Analysis
- Ground 7: the SSHD appeal and specialty
- Conclusions