Former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner has won a landmark legal victory after more than a decade of extradition proceedings, with the High Court permanently halting efforts to send him to the United States.

It also ruled that the State violated his constitutional rights by unlawfully pursuing the case.

In a 71-page judgment delivered yesterday, Madame Justice Karen Reid found that the continuation of the extradition proceedings breached Warner’s constitutional rights after the Authority to Proceed (ATP), which initiated the extradition process, was issued without the legal safeguards required under Trinidad and Tobago’s Extradition (Commonwealth and Foreign Territories) Act.