Life Sentence Review Commissioners v Doherty (Secretary of State for Northern Ireland intervening) – WLR Daily

Posted June 11th, 2008 in law reports, sentencing, standard of proof by sally

Life Sentence Review Commissioners v Doherty (Secretary of State for Northern Ireland intervening) [2008] UKHL 33; [2008] WLR (D) 187

“The standard of proof to be established when the Life Sentence Review Commissioners were considering whether a prisoner who had served the tariff on his life sentence should be released, was the civil standard of the balance of probabilities.”

WLR Daily, 11th June 2008

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