‘A man jailed for life last year after being convicted of raping a woman in her bedroom in 1997 has won a two-year reduction in his minimum term.’
The Guardian, 21st January 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Maximum sentences for a range of terrorism offences including weapons training will be upgraded from 14 years to life, the Telegraph can reveal.’
Daily Telegraph, 9th January 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Writing in his magisterial new work, Human Rights and the UK Supreme Court, Professor Brice Dickson noted that the Human Rights Act had created ‘an internationalized system of human rights protection rather than a constitutional one.’ Indeed, there had been a marked resistance on the part of the Supreme Court to use the common law to achieve the same goal of human rights protection. In Osborn v The Parole Board the Supreme Court seemed to resile from this position.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 13th October 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The protection of rights under the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms was not a discrete area of the law, based on the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, but permeated the domestic legal system. Compliance with article 5.4 of the Convention required that there had, in the first place, to be compliance with the relevant procedural and substantive rules of domestic law.”
WLR Daily, 9th October 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Supreme Court, 9th October 2013
“The mother of Peter Connelly, the toddler known as Baby P who died with more than 50 injuries despite being on the at-risk register, has been recommended for release from prison by the Parole Board.”
The Guardian, 8th October 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The mother of Baby P could be freed from jail within days when her case is considered by the body responsible for deciding whether prisoners can be safely released into the community.”
The Independent, 30th September 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Regina (Sturnham) v Parole Board and another (No 2): [2013] UKSC 47; [2013] WLR (D) 274
“The statutory provisions relating to sentences of imprisonment for public protection involved a higher threshold for the imposition of such sentences than for continued detention after the expiry of a prisoner’s minimum term.”
WLR Daily, 3rd July 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Supreme Court, 3rd July 2013
“One of James Bulger’s killers, Jon Venables, should be released from prison, the parole board has said. Venables was previously paroled, but sent back to jail for accessing child pornography.”
BBC News, 4th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The High Court has overturned an order granting anonymity to a man who murdered three children in Worcester.”
BBC News, 22nd May 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Where it was established on a balance of probabilities that a delay in holding a hearing before the Parole Board, in violation of art 5.4 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, had resulted in the detention of a prisoner beyond the date when he would otherwise have been released, damages should ordinarily be awarded as compensation for the resultant detention.”
WLR Daily, 1st May 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Faulkner, R (on the application of ) v Secretary of State for Justice and another [2013] UKSC 23. The Supreme Court has taken a fresh look at what is meant by the Human Rights Act exhortation to take Strasbourg jurisprudence ‘into account’ when fashioning remedies for violations of Convention rights, in this case the right not to be arbitrarily detained under Article 5.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 2nd May 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The UK supreme court has cut the compensation awarded to a life-sentence prisoner whose original release was delayed from £10,000 to £6,500, in a ruling that will nonetheless lead to payouts for scores of convicted murderers, rapists and other violent prisoners.”
The Guardian, 1st May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An adult TV chat show has overturned a court order forcing her to wear an electronic tag after claiming it would put her out of work.”
Daily Telegraph, 12th April 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
R (McGetrick) v Parole Board and another: [2013] EWCA Civ 182; [2013] WLR (D) 107
“The Parole Board had power to make an interlocutory direction requiring that evidence submitted by the Secretary of State be excluded from the final dossier of material taken into account by the panel deciding on whether to release a prisoner on licence.”
WLR Daily, 14th March 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“On 29 January the Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights held that convicted rapist Samuel Betteridge’s Article 5(4) rights had been breached due to delays in his cases being considered by the Parole Board, and awarded him damages for his ‘frustration’.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 15th February 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Society’s view of young people still as venomous as 1993 says the lawyer who represented one of the two-year-old’s killers.”
The Guardian, 1th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The government has been ordered to pay damages to a convicted rapist because of delays to a review about whether he should be released.”
BBC News, 29th January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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