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R (Lee and Wells) v Secretary of State for Justice

Author / Contributor: Kris Gledhill
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R (Lee and Wells) v Secretary of State for Justice
   
Issue: Whether the ongoing detention of post-tariff indeterminate sentence prisoners who had not been offered offending-behaviour courses breached Art 5(1) and/or Art 5(4) ECHR.
   
Court: Administrative Court
   
Reference:   CO/1981/2008 and CO/5310/2008
   
Neutral Citation:   [2008] EWHC 2326 (Admin)
   
Judge(s): Moses LJ
   
Date: 25 July 2008