Prisoners Rights in UK Law
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R (Daly) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
... ... the searching of cells occupied by convicted and remand prisoners in closed prisons in England and Wales. The policy was expressed in the ... law and under the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms , and that the general terms of section 47 ... ...
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R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Simms
... ... And those investigations have included oral interviews with the prisoners in prison ... 3 The Home Secretary contends that prisoners have no ... 349 ... 6 The restrictions on the rights of prisoners ... 7 A sentence of imprisonment is intended to ... ...
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R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Doody ; R v Same, ex parte Pierson ; R v Same, ex parte Smart ; R v Same, ex parte Pegg
... ... into the theory and practice governing the release on licence of prisoners serving mandatory life sentences for murder. I must develop this later ... next development was the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in Thynne, Wilson and Gunnel v. United Kingdom (1990) 13 E.H.R.R. 666 ... ...
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R (on the application of Chester) v Secretary of State for Justice
... ... 1 Two appeals are before the Court by prisoners who were convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. In the ... 2 Both the appellants claim that their rights have been and are being infringed by reason of their disenfranchisement ... ...
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R (Al-Hasan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department; R (Carroll) v Same
... ... In these appeals two serving prisoners appealed against the decision of the Divisional Court on 17th May 2001 ... application of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights there might be very rare exceptions where the interests of mother and ... ...
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R (on the application of Anderson) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
... ... a power which, compatibly with the European Convention on Human Rights ("the convention"), the Home Secretary may properly exercise, and the ... treatment of convicted murderers and discretionary life sentence prisoners in reliance on Doody ( [1994] 1 AC 531 at 559 ) and Wynne ( (1994) 19 ... ...
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R v Deputy Governor of Parkhurst Prison and Others, ex parte Hague ; Weldon v Home Office
... ... They raise important questions with respect to the rights of convicted prisoners ... 2 Introduction ... 3 The ... ...
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Booth v Parole Board
... ... the appellants Booth and Reilly) concern indeterminate sentence prisoners who have served their minimum terms ... 2 It may be helpful to ... the board will also fulfil its duty under section 6(1) of the Human Rights Act 1998 to act compatibly with article 5(4) of the European Convention ... ...
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Somerville and Others v Scottish Ministers (HM Advocate General for Scotland intervening)
... ... Executive is subject to the provisions of section 7(5) of the Human Rights Act 1998. 2. Whether the act of a governor of a ... that a large number of other cases involving the segregation of prisoners are awaiting a decision on this issue. It would however be rendered ... ...
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Thomas and Another v Baptiste and Others
... ... to have his application to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights considered and determined before the sentence was carried out; ... 4 ... prescribed strict time limits and procedures for applications by prisoners under sentence of death to the UNHRC and the Commission. This was an ... ...
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