EXTRADITION APPEAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 August 1938, Page 8

EXTRADITION APPEAL

4 LEGAL ARGUMENT HEARD IN AUCKLAND THE CASE OF K. J. REGNER (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND. This Day. In the hearing in the Court of Appeal of a motion for a writ of mandadamus in regard to the arrest in New South Wales of Karl Jacob Regner, and to the extradition of Regner to New South Wales, Mr Evans-Scott today presented the argument for the second part of the Crown's case, that a rendition of the fugitive might be obtained to the Commonwealth, under Part 2 of the Fugitive Offenders Act, for an offence against, the law obtaining in any part of the Commonwealth. Counsel surveyed the position in Canada, South Africa and India as relating to extradition law with rulings on the operation of the Fugitive Offenders Act in those countries. These, he said, supported his submission that the Commonwealth, under the Constitution Act, could create and punish offences in reference to matters under Section 51 of the Fugitive Offenders Act in the same way that the local legislation of Canada could. Counsel contended that on the result of the rulings made in those countries, an interpretation of the Fugitives Act ruling in Munro versus Campbell, on which the magistrate here had based his refusal to endorse a warrant, was startling.