Collection Spotlight - November 18 2025

Working on an extradition case and need to find relevant caselaw and practice advice? Need to learn more about the bilateral and multilateral treaties signed by Canada in this area?

Then Canadian Extradition Law by Gary Botting is the book for you!

This title contains essential information for your research, such as:

  • An introduction to key concepts such as comity, the Charter’s impact on extradition cases, reliability of certified evidence of foreign prosecutorial authorities, and the ‘bait and switch’ technique.
  • A fully annotated Extradition Act, featuring commentary, practice notes, cross-references to other pertinent Acts and treaties, and comparisons with former Acts.
  • Select articles from international treaties including the International Criminal Court and treaties from other countries.
  • Appendices containing excerpts from other relevant Acts, documents, and forms, including Justice Canada’s guide to preparing extradition requests.

Canadian Extradition Law is available on the public access computers at all our Courthouse Libraries locations. Next time you’re in the library, search for the title in the library catalogue on the computer and click on the digital access link; this will take you straight to the digital title in LexisAdvance.

We also have this title available in print. If you want to borrow the book or request scans through our document delivery service, please contact us at librarian@courthouselibrary.ca or 1-800-665-2570.

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