Detention Centres in UK Law

  • R (Smith) v Oxfordshire Assistant Deputy Coroner
    • Supreme Court
    • 30 June 2010
    ... ... to death by British troops while detained in a British military detention unit. The claimants sought independent enquiries into these deaths, ... the Strasbourg Court has held that detainees in British detention centres in Iraq fell within United Kingdom jurisdiction by reason of ... ...
  • R (YH) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 25 February 2010
    ... ... were first instructed on 8 February 2008, and visited him in detention on 14 February 2008. Following that initial meeting, their contact details ... was relied on as showing that conditions in prisons and detention centres in the KRG area regularly involved inhuman and degrading treatment, and ... ...
  • Raymond v Honey
    • House of Lords
    • 04 March 1982
    ... ... as follows: "Rules for the management of prisons, remand centres, detention centres and Borstal institutions. (1) The Secretary of ... ...
  • Dorset Yacht Company Ltd v Home Office
    • House of Lords
    • 06 May 1970
    ... ... was owed to the Company being a duty of care with respect to the detention of those in charge and to "the manner in which such persons were treated, ... is not owed in respect of those detained in prisons, detention centres and approved schools who escape therefrom and do damage which is ... ...
  • R v Deputy Governor of Parkhurst Prison and Others, ex parte Hague ; Weldon v Home Office
    • House of Lords
    • 24 July 1991
    ... ... treatment hereinbefore described converted pro tern a lawful detention into a false imprisonment." ... make rules for the regulation and management of prisons, remand centres, detention centres and Borstal institutions respectively, and for the ... ...
  • R v Civil Service Appeal Board, ex parte Cunningham
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 04 March 1991
    ... ... Detention Centres. Mr Cunningham appealed to the Civil Service Appeal Board ("the ... ...
  • R (C) v Middlesbrough Council; A v Hoare and other appeals
    • House of Lords
    • 30 January 2008
    ... ... After that, claims against the operators of schools, detention centres and similar institutions for sexual abuse by employees came thick ... ...
  • R v Board of Visitors of Hull Prison, ex parte St Germain
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 03 October 1978
    ... ... make rules for the regulation and management of prisons, remand centres, detention centres and Borstal institutions respectively, and for the ... ...
  • R (on the application of Hassan and another) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Dublin - Malta; EU Charter Art 18)
    • Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber)
    • 28 September 2016
    ... ... 7 (7) Mr Hassan was confined in close detention conditions in Malta for approximately one year. He asserts significant ... This prosaic difficulty was not remedied by transfers to open centres since residence there was not compulsory. As a result, Dr Bugre's agency ... ...
  • R (B) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 18 October 2004
    ... ... 189 of the Migration Act 1958 they were detained in the Woomera Detention Centre in South Australia. On 21 February 2001 the applicants' mother ... The Woomera Detention Centre opened in 1999 as one of a number of centres for the detention, pursuant to the Migration Act 1958, of those who ... ...
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