R (Cooper) v HM Prison Service

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
JudgeDEPUTY MASTER DI MAMBRO
Judgment Date22 February 2006
Neutral Citation[2006] EWCA Civ 409
Docket NumberC1/2005/1849
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
Date22 February 2006

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION)

ON APPEAL FROM QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION, ADMINISTRATIVE COURT

(MR JUSTICE OUSELEY)

Royal Courts of Justice

Strand

London, WC2

Before:

Deputy Master Di Mambro

C1/2005/1849

The Queen on The Application of Cooper
Claimant/Appellant
and
Her Majesty's Prison Service
Defendant/Respondent

THE APPELLANT DID NOT APPEAR AND WAS NOT REPRESENTED.

THE RESPONDENT DID NOT APPEAR AND WAS NOT REPRESENTED.

DEPUTY MASTER DI MAMBRO
1

This is the claimant's application for permission to appeal the order made by Ouseley J on 29 July 2005 when he was sitting in the Administrative Court. By his order, Ouseley J dismissed the claimant's claim for judicial review of the decisions made by a prison governor in late October 2004. The governor of Her Majesty's Prison in Bristol had re-categorised the claimant as a category B prisoner instead of a category C prisoner, and had refused to allow him continuing access to his own personal computer.

2

The claimant is serving a discretionary life sentence imposed on 12 September 1997 for two counts of rape. The claimant, who acts in person, filed his appellant's notice with the Civil Appeal Office on 10 August 2005. He was advised of the need to provide a set of bundles in support of his application and was granted a series of extensions of time to enable him so to do. On 4 November Messrs Birchall Blackburn wrote to the Civil Appeals Office indicating that they were applying for a certificate of public funding on the claimant's behalf and seeking further time. As a result the claimant was informed that his time for filing the bundle...

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