§ Mr. Stanbrookasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how, in any case where the United Kingdom is under a treaty obligation, where extradition is not granted, to submit the case to its competent authority for the purpose 406W of prosecution, (as with the amended treaty with Israel), it is proposed to comply in the absence of extra-territorial jurisdiction being conferred on United Kingdom courts and the power to receive written evidence taken abroad.
§ Dr. SummerskillThe obligation under such bilateral treaties to submit a case to the competent prosecution authority does not import an obligation to prosecute. Prosecution may in any event be precluded by the extent of the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the requested State, or practical inability to put the offender on trial (for example, because of lack of witnesses).