R v Deputy Governor of Parkhurst Prison and Others, ex parte Hague ; Weldon v Home Office

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
JudgeLord Bridge of Harwich,Lord Ackner,Lord Goff of Chieveley,Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle,Lord Lowry
Judgment Date24 July 1991
Judgment citation (vLex)[1991] UKHL J0724-1
Date24 July 1991
CourtHouse of Lords
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261 cases
  • Racz v Home Office
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 16 December 1993
    ...by the prison officers. The Court of Appeal reached that conclusion because of the decision of this House in Weldon v. The Home Office [1992] 1 A.C. 58 and, in particular, of certain observations therein of Lord Bridge of Harwich. In order to see whether that conclusion was justified it is ......
  • R.T. v Director of the Central Mental Hospital
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 16 February 1995
    ...of detention. Middleweek v. Chief Constable of MerseysideELR [1992] 1 A.C. 179 and R. v. Deputy Governor of Parkhurst PrisonELR [1992] 1 A.C. 58 distinguished. 4. That legislative restrictions on the citizen's liberty must be in accordance with the fundamental norms of the legal order postu......
  • Todd v Adams
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 18 April 2002
    ...authority (see e.g. per Lord Diplock in Lonrho Limited v Shell Petroleum Co. Limited (No. 2) [1982] AC 173 at 185B-E, R v Deputy Governor of Parkhurst Prison ex p. Hague [1992] 1 AC 58 at 170C to 171A per Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle, and Phelps v Hillingdon London Borough Council [2001]......
  • Felix Wamala v Tascor Services Ltd (formerly Reliance Secure Task Management Ltd)
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 20 June 2017
    ...the burden shifts to the defendant to show that there was lawful justification for doing so. As Lord Bridge said in R v Deputy Governor of Parkhurst Prison, Ex p Hague [1992] 1 AC 58, 162C-D: "The tort of false imprisonment has two ingredients: the fact of imprisonment and the absence of la......
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7 books & journal articles
  • Of Kings and Officers — The Judicial Development of Public Law
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Federal Law Review No. 33-2, June 2005
    • 1 June 2005
    ...by criminal proceedings. The case involved a highway authority. 293 See Hague v Deputy Governor of Parkhurst Prison; Ex parte Hague [1992] 1 AC 58; Byrne v Australian Airlines (1995) 185 CLR 410, 424–5; KM Stanton, 'New Forms of the Tort of Breach of Statutory Duty' (2004) 120 Law Quarterly......
  • Constitutional damages, procedural due process and the Maharaj legacy : a comparative review of recent Commonwealth decisions (part 2)
    • South Africa
    • Sabinet Southern African Public Law No. 27-1, January 2012
    • 1 January 2012
    ...Fair Cape Property Developers (Pty) Ltd 2003 6 SA 13, [2003] 2 All SA7465 (SCA); R v Deputy Governor of Parkhurst Prison, ex parte Hague [1992] 1 AC 58; Rowling vTakaro Properties Ltd [1998] AC 473; Dunlop v Woollah ra Municipal Council [1982] AC 158.[1990] HCA 21, (1990) 170 CLR 1 (HCA).8[......
  • CRIMINAL JUSTICE UNDER THE UNITED KINGDOM HUMAN RIGHTS ACT
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2013, December 2013
    • 1 December 2013
    ...Rights (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). 72Golder v United Kingdom[1975] 1 EHRR 524 at [45]. 73 (1978) 1 QB 425 (CA). 74 [1992] 1 AC 58. 75R (St Germain) v Board of Visitors of Hull Prison(1978) 1 QB 425 (CA); Raymond v Honey[1983] AC 1; Leech v Deputy Governor of Parkhurst Prison[19......
  • Rehabilitation, risk management and prisoners’ rights
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Criminology & Criminal Justice No. 14-4, September 2014
    • 1 September 2014
    ...v DPP ex parte Manning and Melbourne [2001] QB 330 DC.R v Deputy Governor of Parkhurst Prison ex parte Hague, and Weldon v Home Office [1991] 3 All ER 733.R v Secretary of State for the Home Department ex parte Amin [2003] UKHL 51.Rangelov v Germany [2012] Application no. 5123/07 (22 June 2......
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