AP v Secretary of State for the Home Department – WLR Daily

Posted July 17th, 2009 in human rights, law reports by sally

AP v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2009] EWCA Civ 731; [2009] WLR (D) 243

“The cumulative impact of other obligations imposed under a control order the core element of which was a 16-hour daily curfew could not provide a tipping point where, taking account of the conditions and circumstances, a curfew of 16 hours per day was insufficiently stringent to amount to a deprivation of liberty within art 5 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, as scheduled to the Human Rights Act 1998.”

WLR Daily, 16th July 2009

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