R (Lichniak) v Secretary of State for the Home Department

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
JudgeLORD BINGHAM OF CORNHILL,LORD NICHOLLS OF BIRKENHEAD,LORD STEYN,LORD HUTTON,LORD HOBHOUSE OF WOODBOROUGH,LORD SCOTT OF FOSCOTE,LORD RODGER OF EARLSFERRY
Judgment Date25 November 2002
Neutral Citation[2002] UKHL 47
Date25 November 2002
CourtHouse of Lords
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    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 11 August 2017
    ...approached in a proportionate manner so as to include a defendant who did not pose a significant risk to the public. 248 In R v Lichniak [2002] UKHL 47, [2003] 1 AC 903, the appellants sought to argue that the mandatory imposition of life imprisonment upon adults convicted of murder was co......
  • The Queen v Aaron George
    • British Virgin Islands
    • High Court (British Virgin Islands)
    • 16 December 2009
    ... ... Vincent John Connolly was shot five times outside his home and killed. The Prisoner, Mr. Aaron George was subsequently ... a person to imprisonment for life , shall state whether such person may be eligible to be considered for ... said section 9 and to the English cases of R v Lichniak , R v Pyrah 9 to say that the lawfulness of the mandatory ... down by the House of Lords in R (Anderson) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2002] UKHL 46 10 and ... ...
  • R v Hills, 2020 ABCA 263
    • Canada
    • Court of Appeal (Alberta)
    • 10 July 2020
    ...Parliament has broad discretion in prescribing conduct as criminal and in determining proper punishment”); The Queen v. Lichniak, [2002] UKHL 47, ¶ 14; [2003] 1 A.C. 903, 911-12 per Lord Bingham (“the House must note that section 1(1) of the Murder (Abolition of the Death......
  • R (on the application of Sturnham) v The Parole Board of England and Wales and another (No. 2)
    • United Kingdom
    • Supreme Court
    • 3 July 2013
    ...be confined", the Parole Board is an investigative body which will make up its own mind on all the material before it: see R v Lichniak [2002] UKHL 47, [2003] 1 AC 903, para 16, per Lord Bingham, and In re McClean [2005] UKHL 46; [2005] UKHRR 826, paras 74–78, per Lord Carswell. Mr South......
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5 books & journal articles
  • CRIMINAL JUSTICE UNDER THE UNITED KINGDOM HUMAN RIGHTS ACT
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2013, December 2013
    • 1 December 2013
    ...for the Home Department[2003] 1 AC 837; [2002] 4 All ER 1089 at [47]. 99 Applications Nos 66069/09, 130/10 and 3896/10 (9 July 2013). 100[2003] 1 AC 903. 101R v Lychniak[2003] 1 AC 903 at [8]. 102(2009) 49 EHRR 35. 103[2009] 1 WLR 223. 104(2013) 56 EHRR 1. 105(2012) 55 EHRR 19. 106[2009] 1 ......
  • Judicial Responses to Bright Line Rules in Social Security: In Search of Principle
    • United Kingdom
    • Wiley The Modern Law Review No. 72-3, May 2009
    • 1 May 2009
    ...v Secretaryof State for the Home Department’(2007) EHRLR 679,693.157 n 155above at [17].158 ibid. In a di¡erent context, see RvLichniak [2002] UKHL 47; [2003] 1 AC 903 at [14] (Lord Bing-ham).159 [2007] EWHC 1705(Admin).Emma Laurie403r2009 The Author.Journal Compilation r200 9 The Modern La......
  • Trinidad and Tobago: Constitutionality of Mandatory Death Penalty
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 68-3, June 2004
    • 1 June 2004
    ...in effect, indeterminate and can therefore beadjusted to ref‌lect the degrees of culpability in any individual case: see Rv Lichniak [2003] 1 AC 903 and (2003) 67 JCL 130 (Comment by C. Galeand A. James on Lichniak and Ex p. Anderson [2002] 3 WLR 1800).It is apparent from the heading above ......
  • R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex p Anderson– Ending the Home Secretary's Sentencing Role
    • United Kingdom
    • Wiley The Modern Law Review No. 67-1, January 2004
    • 1 January 2004
    ...vUnitedKingdom (2002) 35EHRR 32.10 [2002] UKHL 46; [2003] 1AC 837.11 Andersonn10 aboveper Lord Bingham at [2]. See also RvLichniak [2002] UKHL 47; [2003]1 AC903.Merris Amos10 9rThe Modern LawReview Limited judge where the o¡ence is grave and where there are exceptional circumstanceswhich de......
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