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Lawyers acting for Ian Norris, the above arch controlling of Morgan
Crucible, accept vowed to use all rights of address afterwards a
magistrates cloister disqualified that he should be extradited to face
obstruction of amends accuse in the United States.
The obstruction accuse adjoin Mr Norris are of "such gravity"
that he should be extradited, the cloister said yesterday. The cardinal
comes beneath than 5 months afterwards the House of Lords alone the US
Department of Justice's axial affirmation of price-fixing adjoin Mr
Norris.
The case will now be referred to the Home Secretary, Jacqui
Smith. Mr Norris's attorneys will altercate that he risks getting
approved on altered accuse from those acclimated to accretion
displacement because American sentencing guidelines acquiesce board to
yield into annual accuse not heard in court.
Alistair Graham, a accomplice at White & Case, who is
acting for Mr Norris, said: "We will be demography up our appropriate
to accomplish submissions to the Secretary of State answer why Ian
should not be extradited and will delay for her accommodation in due
course. If necessary, we will of advance exercise all rights of
appeal."
If the Home Secretary approves the ruling, the address would go
to the High Cloister and could end up aback in the House of Lords.
Because Mr Norris is claiming contravention of his animal rights, an
address could go all the way to the European Cloister of Animal Rights.
Mr Norris has been aggressive prosecutors for about 5 years
over claims he colluded with all-embracing rivals to fix the amount of
carbon apparatus acclimated in trains amid 1989 and 2000. The US
Department of Amends claims the 65-year-old blocked their analysis by
shredding evidence. Mr Norris has consistently denied any wrongdoing.
The Law Lords disqualified in March that Mr Norris could not be
extradited for price-fixing because bunch action was not accurately
fabricated bent in the UK until the 2002 Enterprise Act. But the Lords
larboard accessible whether the US authorities could abandon him for
obstructing amends and referred the amount to the lower cloister for
review. Mr Norris's affirmation that the obstruction allegations were
"subsidiary" to the capital price-fixing case was alone by commune
adjudicator Nicholas Evans. He aswell absolved the affirmation that
displacement would borrow the animal rights of Mr Norris and his wife
because of the aftereffect on their health.
Mr Norris larboard Morgan Crucible in 2002 afterwards a action
with prostate cancer. He abounding the audition at City of Westminster
Magistrates Cloister bygone afterwards affliction prevented him from
getting in cloister for the Lords' accommodation in March. Morgan
Crucible, which sells bowl and carbon locations for use in the
steel-making industry, and its US subsidiary, Morganite, agreed to pay
$11m in fines to achieve accompanying anti-competition accuse in 2002.
Mr Norris was not covered by the adjustment and has been angry the
accuse back he was arrested in London in January 2005.
The Law Lords' cardinal was apparent as arresting a draft for
the UK's business association in its attempts to anticipate the United
States from application an displacement accord to arraign white-collar
abyss afterwards three above NatWest bankers were fabricated to face
artifice accuse accompanying to the collapse of Enron.
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