* Posts by TomJ

2 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Jan 2008

McKinnon loses extradition fight

TomJ

How was this ever a European problem?

It's Britain that doesn't have a written constitution which gurantees basic freedoms and constitutional court that decides when laws violate these freedoms, that's why so many such cases end up at the ECHR.

And last time I checked it was the British parliament that agreed to this ridicolous extradition deal with the US.

German privacy activists cry foul over data retention law

TomJ
Alert

federal court...

... is a bit vague (there are several unrelated other federal courts). What is meant is the Federal Constitutional Court, which has the power to strike down laws if it finds them unconstitutional and in the past has also made clear, that it doesn't think that excludes EU "legislation"...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Constitutional_Court_of_Germany