The High Court has per­ma­nent­ly stopped ex­tra­di­tion pro­ceed­ings against for­mer FI­FA vice-pres­i­dent Jack Warn­er, rul­ing that the con­tin­u­a­tion of the pro­ceed­ings breached his con­sti­tu­tion­al right to lib­er­ty.

In a judg­ment de­liv­ered by Jus­tice Devin­dra Ram­per­sad Reid, the court found that the is­suance of an Au­thor­i­ty to Pro­ceed (ATP) in the ab­sence of an arrange­ment with the Unit­ed States guar­an­tee­ing the pro­tec­tions on spe­cial­ty re­quired un­der sec­tion 8(3) of the Ex­tra­di­tion (Com­mon­wealth and For­eign Ter­ri­to­ries) Act, Chap. 12:04, con­sti­tut­ed a breach of Warn­er’s rights.

The court al­so de­clared that rep­re­sen­ta­tions made in pre­vi­ous pro­ceed­ings that a spe­cial or be­spoke spe­cial­ty arrange­ment ex­ist­ed be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and the Unit­ed States in re­la­tion to Warn­er con­sti­tut­ed breach­es of his con­sti­tu­tion­al rights.