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2005 Volume 2

Cases Reported


R (Bannatyne) v Home Secretary and Independent Adjudicator 1
Issue: Whether prison disciplinary proceedings should have been held in public
 
Brown v UK 10
Issue: Whether the recall of a determinate sentence prisoner breached Arts 5, 6 or 8 European Convention.
 
R (Smith) v Parole Board, R (West) v Parole Board 14
Issue: Whether a prisoner recalled to prison for breach of licence was entitled to an oral hearing in front of the Parole Board by virtue of Arts 5 or 6 European Convention and/or common law.
 
Watkins v Home Office and others 31
Issue: Whether the tort of misfeasance in a public office was complete without proof of special damage.
 
R (Szuluk) v (1) Governor, HMP Full Sutton (2) Home Secretary 42
Issue: Whether a prisoner in a Category A prison had a right to private correspondence with outside medical advisors.
 
Doerga v Netherlands 47
Issue: Whether the recording and retaining of D’s telephone conversations was a breach of his Art 8 rights.
 
Hill v UK 55
Issue: Whether failure to provide an oral hearing for post-tariff life sentenced prisoner was a breach of Art 5(4); whether such breach provided an enforceable right to compensation under Art 5(5).
 
Brand v Netherlands 58
Issue: Whether detention in prison pending a place being found in a secure psychiatric institution breached Art 5 of the European Convention.
 
Morsink v Netherlands 72
Issue: Whether detention in prison pending a place being found in a secure psychiatric institution breached Art 5 of the European Convention.
 
Blackstock v UK (Admissibility) 85
Issue: Whether Art 5.4 requires that the Parole Board be able to control the categorisation of post-tariff lifers and the timing of reviews; whether the review on the facts was carried out speedily.
 
Blackstock v UK 97
Issue: Whether reviews of the detention of a life sentence prisoner were carried out speedily.
 
R (Day) v Home Secretary 104
Issue: Whether it was lawful for the Home Secretary to control the timing of reviews by the Parole Board of the detention of post-tariff lifers; whether the delay on the facts was lawful.
 
Spence v UK 113
Issue: Whether Art 5 requires that the Parole Board be able to control the timing of reviews of post-tariff mandatory lifers; whether the review on the facts was carried out speedily.
 
R (Carroll and Al-Hasan) v Home Secretary 120
Issue: Whether an adjudicator was biased when ruling on the lawfulness of an order
 
R (Greenfield) v Home Secretary 129
Issue: Whether a breach of Art 6 in a prison disciplinary adjudication required an award of damages.
 
R (Girling) v Parole Board and Home Secretary 136
Issue: Whether the Board’s decision not to release a life sentence prisoner had given insufficient weight to his medical condition, or had followed an erroneous approach as to the need for a release plan; whether the Home Secretary could issue directions to the Board in relation to the release of life sentence prisoners.
 
R (Ryall) v HM Prison Service 153
Issue: Whether the policy of monitoring the communications of prisoners subject to a restraining order under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 was lawful.
 
R (TB) v Home Secretary 155
Issue: Whether the categorisation of a juvenile detainee as a provisional Category A detainee and his placement in a medical wing were lawful.
 
R (Palmer) v Home Secretary 165
Issue: Whether there was a right to make representations prior to a re-categorisation decision; whether the decision was flawed on its facts.
 
R (Carman) v Home Secretary 172
Issue: Whether a requirement to reside at a probation hostel was lawful.
 
R (MJ) v Home Secretary 181
Issue: Whether it was unlawful to transfer a prisoner in a dispersal prison; the propriety of a decision to maintain his Category A status.
 
R (Hamblett) v Governor, HMP Frankland 196
Issue: Whether a refusal to allow enhanced status to a prisoner who denied his guilt was lawful.
 
R (Taylor) v Governor, HMP Risley 198
Issue: Whether restricting telephone calls by all prisoners in a prison to a limited number of pre-approved numbers breached Art 8 European Convention.
 
R (Gleaves) v Home Secretary 205
Issue: Whether a disciplinary conviction for racist language was proper.
 
Nilsen v (1) Governor HMP Full Sutton (2) Home Secretary 210
Issue: Whether the refusal to allow a prisoner to have the transcript of his autobiography breached Art 10 European Convention.
 
R (Hammond) v Home Secretary 218
Issue: Whether an oral hearing could be held as part of the process for setting the tariff of an existing mandatory life sentence prisoner.
 
R (Wright) v Home Secretary 226
Issue: Whether a mandatory lifer could claim damages for breach of Art 5 European Convention in relation to decisions in the 1990s.
 
Whitfield, Pewter, Gaskin, Clarke v UK 236
Issue: Whether Art 6 was breached when additional days were awarded at adjudication hearings where legal representation was denied; whether compensation was available.
 
R (Tangney and Francis) v Governor, HMP Elmley & Home Secretary 246
Issue: Whether life sentenced prisoners are entitled to hearings in front of the independent adjudicator when charged with disciplinary offences.
 
R (Tangney) v Governor, HMP Elmley and Home Secretary 253
Issue: Whether life sentenced prisoners are entitled to hearings in front of the independent adjudicator when charged with disciplinary offences.
 
R (Roberts) v Parole Board 262
Issue: Whether the Parole Board was able to appoint a special advocate to consider sensitive material which was not released to the prisoner’s solicitors in an oral hearing for a mandatory lifer.
 
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