Newsletter

2006 Volume 2

Cases Reported


Mathew v Netherlands 1
Issue: Whether the conditions of and treatment in detention breached Art 3 European Convention
 
Bastone v Italy 26
Issue: Whether the conditions of detention breached Arts 3 or 8 European Convention
 
Öcalan v Turkey 31
Issue: Whether the imposition of the death penalty following an unfair trial breached Arts 2 or 3 European Convention; whether the conditions of detention breached Art 3.
 
Becciev v Moldova 47
Issue: Whether the conditions of detention breached Art 3 European Convention
 
Sarban v Moldova 55
Issue: Whether the conditions of detention and/or the failure to provide medical assistance breached Art 3 European Convention; whether there was a breach of Art 8 in relation to legal communications.
 
Baginsky v Poland 68
Issue: Whether restrictions on family visits breached Art 8
 
Khudoyorov v Russia 73
Issue: Whether the conditions of detention and transport to court breached Art 3 European Convention.
 
Alver v Estonia 83
Issue: Whether conditions of detention breached Art 3 European Convention
 
R v D 95
Issue: Whether a sentence of detention for public protection was required.
 
R v Lang and Others 98
Issue: Guidance on the application of the provisions relating to dangerous offenders under the Criminal Justice Act 2003
 
R v S and Others 119
Issue: When does the extension period of an extended sentence under the dangerous offender provisions of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 commence; various other procedural issues relating to the dangerous offender provisions.
 
R v Shaffi 133
Issue: Whether the offender was dangerous for the purposes of the Criminal Justice Act 2003; whether a life sentence was required.
 
R v Kevin Robson 136
Issue: The point at which age is determined for the purposes of the provisions for sentencing dangerous offenders under the Criminal Justice Act 2003
 
R v O’Brien and others 142
Issue: The correct approach to making a sentence of imprisonment or detention for public protection consecutive to another such sentence or to a period of return to custody for committing a further offence before the end of an existing sentence.
 
R v Brown and Butterworth 152
Issue: The lawfulness and propriety of combining an extended sentence with a concurrent determinate sentence, and extended sentences with a single extension period applied to two custodial periods were less than 12 months each.
 
R v Johnson and Others 159
Issue: Whether sentences of imprisonment for public protection were proper; further guidance on the regime for sentencing dangerous offenders under the Criminal Justice Act 2003.
 
R (Wyles) v Parole Board 171
Issue: Whether the failure to release a recalled life sentence prisoner was rational or proportionate
 
R (McKenzie) v Governor, HMP Wakefield 176
Issue: Whether a regime of night-time cell checks breached Arts 3 and/or 8 European Convention
 
R (G) v Home Secretary 180
Issue: Whether the removal of a prisoner from a Protected Witness Unit breached Art 2 ECHR; whether the decision to maintain his Category A categorisation was lawful.
 
R (G) v Home Secretary 189
Issue: Whether a the decision to maintain a prisoner’s Category A categorisation was lawful.
 
In re McClean 193
Issue: Whether there was a burden of proof, and if so on whom it lay, in relation to a precondition for release that a life sentence prisoner not be a danger to the public if released immediately; whether the use of intelligence information not revealed to the prisoner except in gist form meant that the proceedings were unfair when the decision-maker expressly averred that the material was not relied upon in reaching a decision adverse to the prisoner.
 
R (Girling) v Parole Board and Home Secretary 215
Issue: Whether the Home Secretary could issue directions to the Board in relation to the release of life sentence prisoners; whether challenges to the Board’s decision not to release a life sentence prisoner should proceed in light of his death.
 
Demirtepe v France 223
Issue: Whether there was a breach of Art 8 in the opening of a prisoner’s confidential mail.
 
Matwiejczuk v Poland 225
Issue: Whether censorship of correspondence breached Art 8 ECHR
 
Mianowski v Poland 230
Issue: Whether censorship of correspondence breached Art 8 ECHR
 
Drozdowski v Poland 234
Issue: Whether censorship of correspondence with the Court breached Arts 8 and 34 ECHR
 
Kwiek v Poland 236
Issue: Whether censorship of correspondence breached Art 8 ECHR
 
John Francis v Home Office (and others) 240
Issue: Whether the conduct of the prison in relation to correspondence breached Arts 8 and/or 10 ECHR; whether there was misfeasance in a public office.
 
Howard Woodin v Home Office 252
Issue: Whether the conduct of the prison in relation to correspondence breached Arts 8 and/or 10 ECHR; whether there was misfeasance in a public office.
 
View as
Sort by
Display per page