In a ruling delivered on Tuesday 23 January (C-367/16), the European Court of Justice decided that member state should not execute a European arrest warrant against a minor at the time an offence is committed if the individual cannot be pursued in a court of law under the terms of the law of the state in question.
In 2014, a Polish court issued a European arrest warrant against Mr Dawid Piotrowski so that the latter would serve a six-month prison sentence for stealing a bicycle when he was...