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British judges, according to today's Telegraph, are more likely to agree to extradite suspects to the US than American judges are to allow their citizens to be put on trial in the UK.
Of course.
That's because US judges are more democratically accountable than ours. However snooty us Brits are about the American system of democratic judicial appointments, it does mean that the US judiciary answers to their demos. That tends to make them a little cautious before handing over their citizens to foreign jurisdictions.
British judges, by contrast, answer only to other judges and to quangos like the Judicial Appointments Commission. It helps explain why they're so into pan-EU arrest warrants and anything that supports the idea of supranational jurisdiction. 17th century accountability explains many of the contemporary biases of the British judiciary - on extradition and much else.
