Type: Judgment

Authority: National Courts: Supreme Courts (Eire) - High Court

Date: 02/20/2007

Subject: In front of an Irish Court, the claimant objects to a European arrest warrant issued against him by Lithuania. The claimant asserts that the offence described in the European arrest warrant is not provided by the Irish law as a crime. According to the warrant the claimant has threatened the victim to take her into a forest and break her legs with an iron bar, in case she didn’t give him back his mobile phone or to pay him a sum of 400 LTL as compensation for the loss of the phone. According to the Court, the acts committed by the claimant and which he is accused of in the arrest warrant, are provided by the Irish law as a crime. The Court has also stated more exactly that to give execution to an arrest warrant the charged offence needn’t be the same, but it is sufficient that the committed facts are provided as a crime, regardless of the title. So, in spite of the objections of the claimant, the Irish judiciary authority has given execution to the European arrest warrant.

Parties: Minister for Justice, equality and law reform c/Laimonas Machevicius

Original language: English

Classification: Justice - Art. 47 Fair trial, public hearing

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