R (Shields) v Secretary of State for Justice [2008] EWHC 3102 (Admin); [2008] WLR (D) 398
“The Secretary of State for Justice had power to consider exercising the royal prerogative of mercy to grant a free pardon in respect of a person convicted and sentenced by a foreign court but transferred to the United Kingdom to serve his sentence and was not constrained from doing so by the provision in art 13 of the Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons 1983 that ‘the sentencing state alone shall have the right to decided on any application for a review of the judgment’.”
WLR Daily, 18th December 2008
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