Regina (Garland) v Secretary of State for Justice and another – WLR Daily

Posted November 21st, 2011 in disciplinary procedures, judicial review, law reports, prisons, time limits by tracey

Regina (Garland) v Secretary of State for Justice and another: [2011] EWCA Civ 1335;  [2011] WLR (D)  333

“Under rule 53(1) of the Prison Rules 1999 prison authorities were allowed a full 48 hours from discovery of an offence against discipline to lay a charge against a prisoner, and longer where there were exceptional circumstances making it impossible to lay the charge within that time.”

WLR Daily, 17th November 2011

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