This is a good move by the UK, the notion of an administrative extradition where a reasonable case, based on the basic facts, is not established before a court in the UK is a nonsence and open to abuse be that by the US, EU or anyone else. Indeed it may even be a better bet to ban all extraditions full stop of any British citizen. Forcing the case to be held in the UK under special provisions under the foreign legislation, or forcing the establishment of a true international court to either vet the extradition in the first place, or conduct the whole trial and sentencing, with sentence served in the home country, in this case the UK. It is wrong to beaurocratise legal process and remove any notion of justice, a due legal process must be seen to be fair and proportionate. Dragging someone across the world, to face charges that are just mere words on a piece of paper, without substantiating evidence, and the possibility for rebuttal is neither justice or proportonate. However, also running cases within the current UK legal system is neither fair or proportionate, which is also a factor that drives extradition, The UK courts are known for their political British institution bias, so of course foreign governments, feel there is little chance for a fair hearing, before judges who deliver British institutional verdicts that will automatically show the bias of the current political foreign policy flavour of the day. So Extradition needs careful consideration, it needs to move away from a pure administrative bias, however to achieve that means that the state, to hear evidence and decide, must also abide by the rule of law. Sadly the UK with its British institututional politicised Judiciary and courts is no where near being able to provide the foundations to bring this about. In terms of law the UK is a failed state processing asylum applications to support terrorism and parallel subversive governments, trained to be puppets of the future.

This move is long overdue - something which the previous government should have addressed once they saw the system being abused.. The treaty with the USA is unbelievably one-sided and the situation with EU extradition also requires clarification. "The UK courts are known for their political British institution bias, so of course foreign governments, feel there is little chance for a fair hearing...." Do you care to give some examples of "political British institution bias" in UK courts? With the Americans, it has been more that a case held in the UK is unlikely to have the required type of anti-foreigner bias that can be achieved in the USA. The three British bankers extradited to the USA were told their cases would drag on for years with them held in the USA, away from their families in the UK, unless they made a deal with prosecutors to plead guilty. What would you do in those circumstances? Their actions (in the UK) were not even a crime under UK law.

@JG Boris Berezovsky and any number of terrorists and criminals involved in terrorist attacks around the world working for and protected by British intelligence and the establishment including those linked to the 9/11 attacks like Abu Qatada who was also linked to the millennium bomb plot was in the pay of MI6. @Count Cash Bad news Britain should be on the list of state sponsored terrorist states that is the premier country where terrorists operate and conduct attacks against numerous countries including Russia and the US who are connected British intelligence or allowed to operate freely with full government and political immunity

Johnx, Spot on, Do you want to add the other 39 names just from Russia, and then go through all the other countries that the UK is harbouring criminals from, many out and out terrorists fully shielded by 'the establishment' (I like that phrase - new one for me, thanks!). But then again there is a character limit in these comments. BTW the UK courts not only have establishment bias externally against nations, but they have internal establishment bias against individuals and segments of their own community. But that's for another day, when we can discuss the modern British notion of the criminal justice team, where police,prosecutors,judges(including magistrates) and politicians link up to form courts of conviction for the 'enemy' for finacial gain. Whilst working in other ways to circumvent the law being applied to themselves, the 'elite', be that through perverting coroners and other courts, abusing process, arbitary law, tampering with evidence, expert manipulation or plain rigging of trials.