EXTRADITION, INTERPOL & MLA

The Mentors Group in affiliation with Outline Chambers has a well established extradition practice. We have extensive experience advising and representing individuals, foreign governments, and judicial authorities in complex and high profile extradition cases, appearing in courts at every level.

We have acted in prominent extradition proceedings involving individuals facing trial across multiple jurisdictions, including the Balkans, South Asia, Latin America, North America, Africa, and numerous EU Member States under the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) and Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TaCA) schemes. With a multilingual and culturally diverse team, we are perfectly placed to meet the varied needs of our diverse client base.

We also have a specialist INTERPOL defence practice. Our members regularly advise and represent individuals affected by INTERPOL Notices, Diffusions and other forms of data processing, often alongside parallel extradition proceedings in the UAE and abroad. Working closely with extradition practitioners and foreign lawyers, we provide coordinated, strategic representation across multiple jurisdictions.

Our assistance includes:

• Advising on the legal effect of Red, Blue, Green and Yellow Notices and Diffusions.
• Emergency advice following arrest, detention or border intervention.
• Strategic coordination between INTERPOL challenges, extradition proceedings and asylum or immigration matters.
• Liaison with foreign counsel and national authorities.

We advise and act in Access Requests to INTERPOL’s independent oversight body, the Commission for the Control of INTERPOL’s Files (“CCF”). We prepare and submit legally robust Access Requests, manage correspondence with the CCF, and advise on urgent protective steps where the existence of INTERPOL data creates an immediate risk of arrest or restriction of movement.

Our members also have particular expertise in challenging Red Notices and Diffusions on grounds including:

• Political motivation or misuse of criminal law
• Absence of a genuine criminal offence (civil, commercial or administrative disputes)
• Violations of International Human Rights Law
• Lack of due process or defective national warrants

INTERPOL alerts frequently act as the trigger for arrest and extradition proceedings. Our INTERPOL practice is fully integrated with our extradition work, allowing us to challenge cases at every stage.

We regularly advise on:

• The impact of INTERPOL Notices on extradition proceedings
• Coordinated challenges to both extradition requests and INTERPOL data
• Strategic use of INTERPOL decisions in domestic courts and appeals
• Parallel proceedings involving asylum, immigration or human rights claims

Through our international network, we work closely with foreign lawyers to ensure consistent and effective representation across jurisdictions.

INTERPOL is constitutionally bound by strict neutrality and is prohibited from engaging in matters of a political, military, religious or racial character. Where these principles are breached, the CCF provides a critical safeguard.

Our members are experienced in identifying and evidencing such violations and in advancing arguments grounded in INTERPOL’s Constitution, Rules on the Processing of Data and international human rights law.