Lawyers seek Hamza health assessment
Lawyers for radical cleric Abu Hamza are asking the High Court for time to carry out further medical tests as he renews his long-running legal battle to halt his extradition from the UK to the US.
The lawyers plan to seek a temporary injunction pending a request for an MRI scan to be carried out due to his "deteriorating health".
In papers before two judges in London, Hamza's QC, Alun Jones, argued that there is "uncontradicted medical opinion that a scan is medically necessary".
The QC says a judge referred to Hamza's "very poor health" at an extradition hearing in 2008.