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R (Smith) v Home Secretary

Author / Contributor: Kris Gledhill
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R (Smith) v Home Secretary
   
Issue: Whether the Home Secretary is obliged to offer an occasional review of the tariff fixed in relation to those sentenced prior to 30 November 2000 to detention during Her Majesty’s Pleasure for murder.
   
Court: House of Lords
   
Reference:  
   
Neutral Citation:   [2005] UKHL 51
   
Judge(s): Lords Bingham, Nicholls, Hoffmann and Hope and Baroness Hale
   
Date: 28 July 2005