It is the third compulsory transfer agreement that Britain has concluded in recent years.
More than 100 Albanian nationals who are prisoners in British jails face being sent back to their country under a compulsory transfer agreement signed on Tuesday.
The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is also representing Mr. Lagatree and has urged the Ninth Circuit to pursue a new legal theory to protect an employee's refusal to sign a compulsory arbitration agreement.
In 1991, the Supreme Court ruled that compulsory arbitration agreements could be enforced in disputes arising under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, based in San Francisco and covering eight Western states, is the lone holdout, having ruled that compulsory arbitration agreements are not enforceable because they violate an employee's rights to go to court.
In February 2012 Indiana became the 23rd state to pass a "right-to-work" law, which makes compulsory-bargaining agreements illegal.
Although the arguments about access to drugs through parallel imports and compulsory-licensing agreements may have some theoretical validity, the disincentive to investment provided by such measures is massive.
"I hope this compulsory prisoner transfer agreement will be the first of many arrangements to free up prison spaces and reduce the burden to taxpayers of foreign criminals, who should rightly become the responsibility of their own country and not the UK".
Nevertheless, within 20 minutes he finalized an agreement: compulsory drug court, five years' probation, no jail time, and an expunged record if Caswick completed drug court and avoided arrest while on probation.
Categories that could be subject to compulsory national framework agreements in future include mobile phones, utilities and consultants.
Ghosh told the committee that the Home Office would consult on extending compulsory national framework agreements for police procurement.
