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What's the cost of our 'special relationship'? - 30/11/07  
     
Judicial torture and the NatWest 3 - FT - 29/11/07  
     
NatWest Three Snubbed - The Times - 7/06/07  
     
Extradition law sparks anger - The Times - 22/9/06  
     

Facing charges far from home - Houston Chronicle 27/7/06

 
     
NatWest Three face bankruptcy after judge orders them to stay in America - The Daily Telegraph 22/07/06  
     
Irish Americans say extradition treaty is a British plot - The Daily Telegraph 22/07/06  
     
NatWest Three forced to sell homes for $4m bail - The Times 22/07/06  
     

US failure to ratify 'boosts Blair critics' - The Times 22/07/06

 
     

NatWest Three ordered to stay in US on $1m bail - The Independent 22/07/06

 
     
British bankers are told that they cannot fly home to await trial - The Scotsman 22/07/06  
     
Home Office ensures NatWest Three must stay in US - The Guardian 22/07/06  
     
Judge says NatWest three must stay in US - Financial Times 21/07/06  
     

NatWest Three families press to meet Reid - The Daily Telegraph 17/7/06

 
     
Trio may try to move trial out of Texas - The Daily Telegraph 17/7/06  
     

NatWest 3 in race to set up bail fund - The Independent 17/07/06

 
     

SFO spurns plea by trio to seize RBS files - The Daily Telegraph 17/7/06

 
     

The bankers, the big deal and the taint of scandal - The Observer 16/7/06

 
     
NatWest Three receive financial backing - Financial Times 16/07/06  
     
MSP attacks Labour over NatWest Three - The Scotsman 16/07/06  
     
Treaty ‘unfair to Irish-Americans’ - Financial Times 16/07/06  
     
NatWest Three apply to return to the UK on bail - The Independent 16/07/06  
     
Texas court bails the NatWest Three - The Daily Telegraph 15/07/06  
     
NatWest Three secure a small victory in their battle to fight case from home - The Times 15/07/06  
     
NatWest Three in court battle to win bail - The Independent 15/07/06  
     
NatWest Three out on bail - Financial Times 15/07/06  
     
Handcuffs Across The Water - Business Week 14/7/06  
     

Natwest Three plead not guilty - The Daily Mail 14/07/06

 
     
With hands and feet in chains, they are led into US court - The Daily Telegraph 14/07/06  
     
NatWest Three set for bail bid as storm over extradition to US intensifies - The Scotsman 14/07/06  
     
NatWest Three land in US and prepare to meet their accusers - The Times 14/07/06  
     
Houston , we have three bankers - The Guardian 14/07/06  
     
Texas Goose Hunt - The Times 14/07/06  
     
NatWest Three ‘distortions’ criticised - Financial Times 14/07/06  
     
NatWest Three board flight to the US - The Times 14/07/06 
     
Former bankers face Houston court - Financial Times 14/07/06  
     
Bankers fly out to face fraud trial - Press Association 14/07/06  
     

America 's long shadow - The Economist 13/07/06

 
     
NatWest Three on extradition journey - Financial Times 13/07/06  
     
Unintended consequences - The Economist 13/07/06  
     
US not to oppose bail for NatWest Three - Financial Times 12/07/06  
     
Minister asks US to honour extradition treaty - The Independent 11/07/06  
     
Blair is bankers' last hope of bail - The Daily Telegraph 11/07/06  
     
Texan jail awaits bankers accused of £11m fraud - The Independent 11/07/06  
     
NatWest Three prepare for jail as Lords fight extradition deal - The Times 11/07/06  
     
11th-hour plea in battle of NatWest Three - The Daily Telegraph 10/07/06  
     
Reid faces defeat in Lords on extradition - The Observer 09/07/06  
     
Lords in last-ditch attempt to rescue NatWest Three- The Sunday Telegraph 09/07/06  
     
David Bermingham: Why can't I be tried here? - The Independent 09/07/06  
     
Prosecute NatWest Three in the UK, say Tories - The Daily Telegraph 07/07/06  
     
'Dear Mr Blair, surely you are part of guarding Britain, aren't you?' - The Daily Telegraph 07/07/06  
     
At last Blair promises to help NatWest Three, but can he deliver - The Daily Telegraph 06/07/06  
     
City executives join politicians in condemning extradition law - The Guardian 06/07/06  
     
Blair backs effort to get ex-bankers bail - Financial Times 06/07/06  
     
Not just the three - Financial Times 06/07/06  
     
Blair to step in over 'NatWest Three' - The Scotsman 06/07/06  
     
PM refuses to act over extradition of NatWest Three - The Times 06/07/06  
     
America defends its citizens, so why don't we defend ours? - The Daily Telegraph 06/07/06  
     
As the NatWest Three face trial in America, why can't we extradite suspects from the U.S.? - Daily Mail 06/07/06  
     
Three face total lockdown in a wire cage - The Daily Telegraph 06/07/06  
     
NatWest 3 ridicule PM's promise of help to get them bail - The Independent 06/07/06  
     
What will I tell children, asks NatWest wife Emma Bermingham - The Daily Telegraph 06/07/06  
     
Halt extradition of the NatWest Three, say Lib Dems - The Guardian 05/07/06  
     
Home Secretary can halt process without an Act of Parliament - The Daily Telegraph 06/07/06  
     
The City 3: RBS to stay silent - The Sun 04/07/06  
     
No case to answer but sent to the US for trial anyway - The Times 04/07/06  
     
Who'll help us when the US marshals hit town? - The Daily Telegraph 04/07/06  
     
RBS 'can say nothing' to help NatWest Three - The Times 03/07/06  
     
My son will rot in a Texas jail - The Daily Telegraph 03/07/06  
     
Executives sweat as NatWest three lose - The Sunday Express 02/07/06  
     
Are we just a poodle? No, a super-poodle - The Sunday Telegraph 02/07/06  
     
Nat West Three should be tried in a British court - Independent on Sunday  
     
Could RBS save the NatWest Three? - The Sunday Telegraph 02/07/06  
     
Royal Bank attacked for 'bewildering silence' in Enron extradition case - The Herald 30/06/06  
     
March for justice - The Daily Telegraph 30/06/06  
     
What do we want? Well, a glass of champers after the demo for starters - the Guardian 30/06/06  
     
Free our 3 - City on march for accused bankers - The Sun 30/06/06  
     
A stroll through the park protest - Financial Times 29/06/06  
     

Extradition rule 'unequal and insidious' - Financial Times 30/06/06

 
     
Heads, we extradite. Tails, you don't - The Times 29/06/06  
     
NatWest three may take case to Europe after Lords reject appeal - 22/6/06  
     
Nat West Three may consider plea bargain - The Independent 29/06/06  
     
Refusal by Law Lords a setback for extradition campaigners - 22/6/06  
     
Hijackers can stay but the bankers will have to go - 12/5/06  
     
Extradition Howard claims Government stance threatens civil rights - 11/5/06  
     
Tories fail to weaken us extradition powers - 10/5/06  
     
Tories' anti-treaty proposals boosted by Scottish vote - 10/5/06  
     
Westminster and Holyrood split on extradition to the Land of the Free - 20/4/06  
     
Snatched by the American courts; Interview; Alex Stone - The Sunday Times - 19/3/06  
     
NatWest Three: don't say we didn't warn you - Euroweek - 10/3/06  
     
Treaty is a crime against justice - The Daily Telegraph - 9/3/06  
     
High time we acted to stop this extradition inequality - The Daily Telegraph - 7/3/06  
     
MPs hit out at 'one-sided' treaty with America - The Daily Telegraph - 7/3/06  
     
Natwest Three caught on extradition's one-way street - The Daily Telegraph - 1/3/06  
     
Cowboy justice - The Spectator - 25/2/05  
     

Don't ignore this gross abuse - Evening Standard - 23/2/05

 
     

Enron row banker - The Herald - 23/2/06

 
     
Go west (Natwest) - The Times - 22/2/06  
     

Executives on Trial - The Wall Street Journal - 22/2/06

 
     
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Further press articles

Failed extradition appeal has profound implications - FT - 22/2/06

'NatWest Three' lose US appeal - The Daily Telegraph - 22/2/06

NatWest bankers lose extradition appeal - The Guardian - 22/2/06

'NatWest three' lose appeal against extradition over Enron - The Independent - 22/2/06

Extradition peril: who's next? - The Times - 01/3/05

Scandal Monger - Sunday Herald - 20/2/05

Enron trio's burden of evidence  - The Sunday Times - 20/2/05

Stand up to America - The Spectator - 19/2/05

Why not charge us here? - The Daily Telegraph - 15/2/05

It's not Kafka ... it's reality for NatWest Three - The Daily Telegraph - 15/2/05 

Bankers plead for SFO inquiry - The Guardian - 15/2/05

UK's Blair Defends Extradition Arrangements With US - Dow Jones - 09/2/05

Tommy Sheridan: Keepbank boys here - The Mirror - 2/2/05

 

Parliamentary debates/questions
 
Lord Goodhart, House of Lords, 6 Dec 2004
http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/ld199900/ldhansrd/pdvn/lds04/text/41206-13.htm#41206-13_spopq0
 

David Heath M.P. to Attorney General, House of Commons, 2 Dec 2004

Lord Goodhart, Caroline Flint, Justice..letters to the Times

Extradition entreaty
http://flintoff.org/article/175/we-wont-go

Terror law may hit firms:
http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/0150business/0200news/tm_objectid=14915136&method=full&siteid=50002&headline=terror-law-may-hit-firms-name_page.html

Fraud accused talks of MSP mother
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3756240.stm

UK bankers face Enron extradition
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3746082.stm

Bankers to face trial in US
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/10/16/nenron16.xml

British bankers say Texas no place for Enron trial
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/special/enron/2821005

Bankers at centre of extradition test case
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3658664.stm

Three ready to battle US extradition on claims of Enron fraud
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1128512004

Banker trial hopes
http://www.sundayherald.com/print25780

Britons charged over £5m Enron fraud
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/06/29/wus129.xml