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1999

Cases Reported


R v Parole Board ex p Bagnall 1
Issue: Whether a refusal of parole was unreasonable.
 
Hartshorn v Home Office 4
Issue: Whether the Prison Service negligently failed to prevent an attack on a prisoner.
 
argaret Brooks v Home Office 7
Issue: Whether the failure to transfer a pregnant prisoner to an outside hospital was negligent; whether it was causative of the stillbirth of one of her twins.
 
R v Home Secretary ex p Mehmet and O’Connor 12
Issue: The procedural requirements for allocation to or continued detention to a Close Supervision Centre.
 
R v Home Secretary ex p Easterbrook 23
Issue: Whether the tariff fixed for a discretionary lifer was unreasonable; whether fairness required an oral hearing before the tariff was fixed.
 
R v Home Secretary ex p Easterbrook 30
Issue: Whether the tariff fixed for a discretionary lifer was unreasonable; whether fairness required an oral hearing before the tariff was fixed.
 
R v Toney 32
Issue: Alteration of sentence because of effect of Home Detention Curfew regime
 
R v Povey 33
Issue: Alteration of sentence because of effect of Home Detention Curfew regime
 
R v Home Secretary ex p Quinn 35
Issue: Whether the failure to transfer a prisoner to a different prison during a trial was unlawful
 
R v Home Secretary ex p Higgins 45
Issue: Whether the Board unlawfully failed to discover the nature of the index offence in relation to an application for parole.
 
R v Home Secretary ex p Pewter 48
Issue: Whether an adjudication should have proceeded in light of the medical state of the prisoner
 
R v Controller, HM YOI Doncaster ex p Gaskin 53
Issue: Whether a refusal to allow legal representation at an adjudication was lawful
 
R v Parole Board ex p Derbyshire 56
Issue: Whether reasons for refusing an application for parole were adequate in light of the failure to mention whether and how account had been taken of the benefits of release.
 
Clarke v Crew 59
Issue: Whether the police owed a duty of care to a prisoner committed to prison for 9 days “from his arrest” to ensure that the prison authorities knew the date of arrest.
 
R v Home Secretary ex p Black 64
Issue: Whether a disciplinary adjudication should be quashed on the basis of an inadequate inquiry.
 
R v Home Secretary ex p Glen Fielding 65
Issue: Whether the policy relating to the issuing of condoms in prison was lawful
 
R v Home Office ex p A 69
Issue: Whether time spent on remand in non-secure local authority accommodation was be deducted from a custodial sentence in calculating the release date.
 
R v Home Secretary ex p Bannori-Shah 74
Issue: Whether a refusal to release on compassionate grounds was irrational.
 
R v Home Secretary ex p Bannori-Shah 76
Issue: Whether a refusal to release on compassionate grounds was irrational.
 
R v Governor of HMP Latchmere House and Parole Board ex p Jarvis 78
Issue: Whether the transfer of a prisoner and recategorisation to a higher security category was lawful; whether the refusal of parole was lawful.
 
R v Home Secretary ex p Simms and O’Brien 82
Issue: The lawfulness of the Home Secretary’s restrictions on visits to prisoners by journalists (which required an undertaking not to use the material obtained).
 
Reeves v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis 99
Issue: Whether the police owed a duty of care to prevent a prisoner in custody committing suicide; whether the defences of volenti non fit injuria or novus actus interveniens applied; and whether the deceased was contributorily negligent
 
R v Parole Board ex p Robinson 118
Issue: Whether a Parole Board lifer panel could reopen the question of risk after an adjournment to put a release package into effect.
 
Ganusaukas v Lithuania 124
Issue: Whether the suspension of a parole licence and recall to prison breached Arts 5.1, 5.4 or 6 European Convention.
 
R v Parole Board and Home Secretary ex p Oyston 127
Issue: Whether the Parole Board had carried out an appropriate balancing act in determining not to release a prisoner on parole
 
R v Sharkey 134
Issue: Whether an order for return to custody could be made by a court in relation to a prisoner recalled to custody by the Home Secretary
 
R v Parole Board ex p Curley 138
Issue: Whether a decision to uphold the recall of a life sentence prisoner was reasonable.
 
R v Home Secretary ex p Blackstock 146
Issue: The process to be followed when the Home Secretary does not follow a Parole Board recommendation that a life sentence prisoner be moved to open prison conditions
 
R v Home Secretary ex p Oshin 149
Issue: The correct approach to the calculation of the early release dates of a prisoner repatriated to the UK under the Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons.
 
Toumia v Evans (Secretary General of the Prison Officers Association) 153
Issue: Whether locking prisoners in their cells whilst a staff meeting was held which went longer than authorised by the governor might arguably give rise to false imprisonment and/or misfeasance in a public office.
 
R v Home Secretary and Governor HMP Whatton ex p Allen 164
Issue: The procedural requirements in relation to the process of release on Home Detention Curfew.
 
R v Governor of Sudbury Prison ex p Minge 169
Issue: The reasonableness of a decision to transfer a life sentence prisoner from open to closed conditions on account of continued cannabis use.
 
R v Home Secretary ex p Andrews 172
Issue: Whether a challenge to the lawfulness of a licence condition should be allowed when a prosecution for breach of the condition was pending.
 
Robert Kerr v UK 174
Issue: Whether the recall to prison of a mandatory life sentence prisoner released on licence breached Art 5, 6, 8, 13 or 14 European Convention
 
R v Governor of HMP Pentonville ex p Lynn 179
Issue: Whether effect should be given to a Court indication as to when a sentence would begin to run.
 
Demirtepe v France 183
Issue: Whether there was a breach of Art 8 in the opening of a prisoner’s correspondence
 
V v UK; T v UK 189
Issue: Whether the trials of children charged with murder breached Arts 3 and 6 of the Convention; whether the sentence of detention during Her Majesty’s Pleasure breached Arts 3, 5, and 6 of the Convention.
 
Connor v Secretary of State for Scotland 221
Issue: Whether there was a breach of a duty of care towards an officer in placing prisoners together where such placement increased the risk of attack and/or in failing to tell him that the prisoners had been placed together
 
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