Jack to know fate July 3

Justice Aboud has reserved his decision to July 31, the last day of the court’s term. Warner is contending that the Extradition Order issued by the US goes against local extradition laws. According to Warner’s attorneys , there is no common law right of extradition and the mere existence of a treaty between TT and a foreign sovereign state is of itself of no domestic effect until and unless that treaty is incorporated into domestic law They also contend that US Order failed to comply with the strictures contained in the local Extradition Act; was not in conformity of the Act, and specifically offended against the restrictions contained in the Act against the return of persons to a requesting state.

The application says it was unlawful for a person to be tried and punished in the requesting state for extra- territorial offences where such offences, had they occurred outside of TT in similar circumstances, would not have constituted an offence in this country.

“Even the arrest of Mr Warner was wrong in law,” his lead counsel Fyard Hosein SC, further submitted. But the Attorney General’s lawyers have told the judge that he does not have the jurisdiction to decide whether the Extradition Treaty conforms with the Act.

“As a rule of law the court cannot interpret a Treaty... That was not parliament’s intention,” Douglas Mendes SC, who leads the case for the State argued.

Mendes has also submitted that the court cannot invalidate the Order. “You are stuck.

The court has no jurisdiction to look at the treaty and interpret it.

You cannot,” he said, adding that the Treaty was not incorporated into domestic law.

Warner surrendered himself to Fraud Squad officers on May 27, 2015, after learning of the provisional warrant.

He is currently on $2.5 million bail.

Warner was indicted by a US grand jury on 12 charges of wire fraud, racketeering and money laundering over an escalating scandal at FIFA, football`s world governing body. US authorities have charged 14 FIFA officials and sports marketing executives of soliciting and receiving more than $150 million in bribes and kickbacks over two decades.

On July 23, US authorities asked for Warner, a former head of football`s governing body in North America, Central America and the Caribbean (Concacaf) to be extradited to face the charges.