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2007

Cases Reported


R (Buddington) v Home Secretary (Administrative Court) 1
Issue: Whether a prisoner released on licence under the Criminal Justice Act 1991 could be recalled under the provisions of the Criminal Justice Act 2003
 
R (Buddington) v Home Secretary (Court of Appeal) 9
Issue: Whether a prisoner released on licence under the Criminal Justice Act 1991 could be recalled under the provisions of the Criminal Justice Act 2004
 
R (Stellato) v Home Secretary (Administrative Court) 14
Issue: Whether a prisoner entitled to be released unconditionally at the three-quarter point of his sentence at the time he was sentenced was subject to the provisions of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 that provided for the licence existing until the end of the sentence.
 
R (Stellato) v Home Secretary (Court of Appeal) 20
Issue: Whether a prisoner entitled to be released unconditionally at the three-quarter point of his sentence at the time he was sentenced was subject to the provisions of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 that provided for the licence existing until the end of the sentence.
 
R (Stellato) v Home Secretary (House of Lords) 29
Issue: Whether a prisoner entitled to be released unconditionally at the three-quarter point of his sentence at the time he was sentenced was subject to the provisions of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 that provided for the licence existing until the end of the sentence.
 
R (Nejad) v Home Secretary 37
Issue: Whether the Home Secretary could depart from the Lord Chief’s Justice’s advice on setting the tariff of a discretionary lifer subject to the transitional arrangements for tariff-setting under the Criminal Justice Act 1991.
 
Ilascu and Others v Moldova and Russia 42
Issue: Whether there were breaches of Arts 2, 3 and 8 ECHR in relation to the imposition of a sentence of death and conditions of detention; whether Art 5 was breached by detention following a trial in front of a court without a constitutional basis.
 
Jankauskas v Lithuania 63
Issue: Whether censorship of correspondence breached Art 8 ECHR
 
R (Gardner) v Parole Board (Administrative Court) 66
Issue: Whether the Board had lawfully excluded a prisoner from a part of a hearing when it heard evidence from his ex-wife.
 
R (Gardner) v Parole Board (Court of Appeal) 78
Issue: Whether the Board had lawfully excluded a prisoner from a part of a hearing when it heard evidence from his ex-wife.
 
R (Faulkner) v Home Secretary 82
Issue: Whether a delay of more than a year between reviews of the detention of a life sentence prisoner by the Parole Board was lawful; whether the prisoner should have been allowed to make representations on a psychology report used in deciding whether to accept a Parole Board recommendation for transfer to open conditions.
 
R (Wright) v Home Secretary 89
Issue: Whether a mandatory lifer could claim damages for breach of Art 5 ECHR in relation to decisions made in the 1990s.
 
Home Office v Butchart 99
Issue: Whether there was a duty of care to a prisoner to prevent psychiatric injury arising from placement in a cell with a suicidal prisoner
 
R (K) v Parole Board 103
Issue: Whether a refusal to grant parole to a young offender was procedurally fair in light of the lack of adult assistance in drafting representations, the failure to consider an oral hearing and the failure to interview him.
 
R (Solomon) v Parole Board 110
Issue: Whether the Board erroneously placed a burden of proof on a recalled extended sentence prisoner.
 
Karagozlu v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis 115
Issue: Whether transfer from an open prison to a closed prison amounts to sufficient damage to found a claim in misfeasance
 
R (Clift) v Home Secretary; R (Hindawi and Headley) v Home Secretary 125
Issue: Whether the Home Secretary’s power to decide the release of those serving 15 years or more breached Arts 5 and 14 ECHR; whether it was lawful to discriminate between prisoners who subject to a deportation order with those who were not in respect of early release on parole.
 
Mamedova v Russia 138
Issue: Whether conditions of detention breached Art 3 ECHR; whether Art 5(4) was breached when the prisoner was not able to attend a court hearing to describe the conditions of detention.
 
Popov v Russia 144
Issue: Whether the conditions of detention and medical attention available in prison breached Art 3 ECHR; whether there was improper interference with the right of petition.
 
Ramirez Sanchez v France 169
Issue: Whether the conditions of detention in solitary confinement breached Art 3 ECHR; whether there was an effective remedy.
 
R v Nicholas Guy Tucker 201
Issue: Whether the tariff of a mandatory life sentence prisoner could be reduced to take account of exceptional progress in custody.
 
R (A) v Governor of Huntercombe YOI and Home Secretary 204
Issue: Whether an assurance that a prisoner would be released immediately if a court so recommended gave rise to exceptional circumstances justifying compassionate release.
 
Holomiov v Moldova 211
Issue: Whether the absence of adequate medical care in custody was in breach of Art 3 ECHR
 
R (Chindamo) v Home Secretary 218
Issue: Whether a decision to transfer all foreign prisoners serving long-term or life sentences in open conditions to closed conditions pending individual risk assessments was lawful
 
R (Ramsden and Naylor) v Home Secretary 220
Issue: Whether prisoners released on home detention curfew could be recalled under the general power of recall applicable to prisoners released on licence or could only be recalled under the power relating to those on home detention curfew
 
Hénaf v France 225
Issue: Whether the use of restraints when a prisoner was in a civilian hospital breached Art 3 ECHR
 
R (Hirst) v (1) Home Secretary (2) Parole Board 232
Issue: Whether the scheme for the recall of life sentence prisoners was in breach of Art 5(4) ECHR in the absence of an immediate and preliminary review of the recall.
 
GK v Poland 236
Issue: Whether censorship of correspondence with the Court breached Arts 8 and 34 ECHR
 
Pisk-Piskowski v Poland 240
Issue: Whether censorship of correspondence with the Court breached Arts 8 and 34 ECHR
 
Michta v Poland 241
Issue: Whether censorship of correspondence with the Court breached Art 8 ECHR
 
Ceglowski v Poland 242
Issue: Whether censorship of correspondence with the Court breached Art 8 ECHR
 
Cabala v Poland 244a
Issue: Whether censorship of correspondence with the Court breached Art 8 ECHR
 
Maksym v Poland 244b
Issue: Whether censorship of correspondence with the Court breached Arts 8 and 34 ECHR
 
Nowicki v Poland 246a
Issue: Whether censorship of correspondence with the Court breached Art 8 ECHR
 
Klyakhin v Russia 246b
Issue: Whether the censorship of correspondence with the Court breached Arts 8, 13 and 34 ECHR
 
Nurmagomedov v Russia 249
Issue: Whether the censorship of correspondence with the Court breached Art 34 ECHR
 
Fedotov v Russia 252
Issue: Whether conditions of detention breached Art 3 ECHR.
 
Khudobin v Russia 259
Issue: Whether the absence of adequate medical treatment breached Art 3 ECHR
 
Tarariyeva v Russia 270
Issue: Whether a failure to provide treatment in detention breached Art 2 ECHR; whether the use of handcuffs in a civilian hospital breached Art 3
 
Čiapas v Lithuania 277
Issue: Whether censorship of correspondence breached Art 8 ECHR
 
Puzinas (no 2) v Lithuania 281
Issue: Whether a disciplinary punishment for not sending a complaint through the prison administration breached Arts 8, 10 or 11 ECHR.
 
Young v UK 285
Issue: Whether prison disciplinary proceedings breached Art 6 ECHR; the appropriate remedy; whether there were arguable breaches of Arts 3, 5, 8, 13 and 14 ECHR.
 
Black v UK 296
Issue: Whether prison disciplinary proceedings breached Art 6 ECHR; remedy.
 
Estrikh v Latvia 297
Issue: Whether restrictions on visits in prison and/or deportation breached Art 8 ECHR
 
Gębura v Poland 300
Issue: Whether a delay in releasing a prisoner granted early release breached Art 5 ECHR.
 
Belevitskiy v Russia 305
Issue: Whether conditions of detention breached Art 3 ECHR
 
Frolov Russia 306
Issue: Whether conditions of detention breached Art 3 ECHR
 
Benediktov v Russia 310
Issue: Whether conditions of detention breached Art 3 ECHR; whether Art 13 was breached
 
Ivanov v Russia 314
Issue: Whether conditions of detention breached Art 3 ECHR
 
Nurmagomedov v Russia – Admissibility Decision 317
Issue: Whether conditions of detention breached Art 3 ECHR
 
Potter v Scottish Prison Service 320
Issue: Whether a pre-recorded message on all outgoing calls by prisoners to indicate that the call was from prison breached Art 8 ECHR
 
Istratii and Others v Moldova 329
Issue: Whether conditions of detention and the lack of medical treatment breached Art 3 ECHR; whether the lack of confidential access to lawyers breached Art 5(4)
 
Wedler v Poland 341
Issue: Whether conditions of detention breached Art 3 ECHR
 
R (Highton) v Governor of HMYOI Lancaster Farms and Home Secretary 344
Issue: Whether a sentence calculation was correct; whether it was irrational to treat a defendant as having been unlawfully at large when he was released by mistake.
 
R (Cooper) v Parole Board 352
Issue: Whether a delay of over 3 months from the recall of a life sentence prisoner to a hearing date before the Parole Board breached Art 5(4) ECHR; whether the prisoner’s deteriorating mental health was relevant to the listing of the hearing.
 
R (Johnson) v Home Secretary and Parole Board (Administrative Court) 360
Issue: Whether a delay in considering an application for discretionary release on parole breached Art 5(4) ECHR
 
R (Johnson) v Home Secretary and Parole Board (Court of Appeal) 365
Issue: Whether a delay in considering an application for discretionary release on parole breached Art 5(4) ECHR
 
R (Gulliver) v Parole Board (Administrative Court) 371
Issue: Whether the Parole Board was required to release a recalled prisoner when the basis for the recall was shown to the incorrect
 
R (Gulliver) v Parole Board (Court of Appeal) 376
Issue: Whether the Parole Board was required to release a recalled prisoner when the basis for the recall was shown to the incorrect
 
R (Churchman) v West Midlands Probation Board 384
Issue: Whether the refusal to provide hostels to allow a life sentence prisoner in open conditions to be tested in the community was lawful
 
Paladi v Moldova 391
Issue: Whether conditions in detention, including the failure to failure to provide adequate medical treatment, breached Art 3 ECHR; whether detention was in breach of Art 5; whether the failure to comply with interim measures breached Art 34.
 
Cenbauer v Croatia 403
Issue: Whether conditions of detention breached Art 3 ECHR
 
Koval v Ukraine 407
Issue: Whether conditions of detention breached Art 3 ECHR; whether the absence of a domestic remedy breached Art 13
 
Testa v Croatia 414
Issue: Whether conditions of detention breached Art 3 ECHR
 
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