Injuries prompt youth jail review – BBC News
“Prison chiefs are reviewing how staff restrain inmates at a young offenders’ institution (YOI) after an ‘unprecedented’ number of injuries.”
BBC News, 23rd June 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: restraint
Watchdog investigates man’s death – BBC News
“The death of a man in Cardiff is to be investigated by the watchdog, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).”
BBC News, 23rd April 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Approach to restraint of young people to be overhauled following independent review – Ministry of Justice
“The approach to the restraint of young people in young offender institutions, secure training centres and secure children’s homes (under-18 secure estates) is to be overhauled, the government announced today. ”
Ministry of Justice, 15th December 2008
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
Controversial restraint technique linked to death of child in custody banned – Daily Telegraph
“A controversial restraint technique linked to the death of a child in custody has been banned as the Government announced a major overhaul of control methods in youth detention.”
Daily Telegraph, 15th December 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Regina (C) v Secretary of State for Justice – Times Law Reports
Regina (C) v Secretary of State for Justice
Court of Appeal
“Secondary legislation laid before Parliament three weeks after a report sent by the Youth Justice Board to the directors of privatised secure training centres holding children, following two deaths in custody, was quashed as procedurally flawed and in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights.”
The Times, 14th October 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
Regina (C) v Secretary of State for Justice – WLR Daily
Regina( C) v Secretary of State for Justice; [2008] WLR (D) 262
“The introduction of an amendment to the Secure Training Centre Rules to permit physical restraint of young offenders in secure training centres to ensure good order and discipline without prior consultation with the Children’s Commissioner was unlawful and engaged art 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedom.”
WLR Daily, 29th July 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Court bans physical restraint methods used on children in custody – The Guardian
“Physical restraint methods on young people in secure training centres (STCs) – including pulling back thumbs – have been outlawed today by the Court of Appeal.”
The Guardian, 28th July 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Prisons: Child secure units still use adult restraint methods, says inspector – The Guardian
“Children being held in secure units are still subjected to restraining techniques designed for adults, with no consistent system of recording the reasons for its use, according to the prisons inspector.”
The Guardian, 9th July 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Wood v Director of Public Prosecutions – Times Law Reports
Wood v Director of Public Prosecutions
Queen’s Bench Division
“Where a police officer restrained a person, but did not at that time intend or purport to arrest him, he was committing an assault, even if an arrest would have been justified.”
The Times, 23rd May 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Pleae note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
Review of the use of restraint in juvenile secure settings – Ministry of Justice
“Justice Minister David Hanson has made a written ministerial statement on the review of the use of restraint in juvenile secure settings.”
Ministry of Justice, 20th March 2008
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
MPs urge curb on restraint techniques in child jails – The Guardian
“The use of restraint techniques involving deliberate physical pain in privately run child prisons should be abolished without delay, according to a report from MPs and peers published today.”
The Guardian, 7th March 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Ministers ban child restraint techniques – The Guardian
“Two restraint techniques used on children in custody have been suspended by ministers after medical concern. The so-called nose distraction, involving a painful upward chop against the septum, and the ‘double basket’, whereby the arms are crossed and held behind the back, are banned while their safety is checked.”
The Guardian, 20th December 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Eye spray used on ‘unruly pupils’ – BBC News
“Police used pepper spray to restrain two 15-year-old pupils after officers were called to a school disturbance.”
BBC News, 12th December 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Child restraint rules challenged – BBC News
“A judicial review will be conducted at the High Court into the use of physical restraint to control children detained in secure training centres.”
BBC News, 4th December 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
