Prison Conditions, HIV and Mental Illness as a Bar to Extradition: South Africa again in the Crosshairs

Abstract

As a British colony, subsequently a British Dominion, and finally an independent Republic, 1 South Africa for many years owed most of its extradition arrangements to succession to treaties concluded by Britain and extended to South Africa as a British ‘possession’. As a British possession, extradition between the United Kingdom and South Africa was governed, up to South African independence, not by treaty, but by the British Fugitive Offenders Act 1881 a piece of British municipal legislation.