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|  R (Scholes) v Home Secretary (2006) | |
| Whether Home Secretary acted compatibly with Art 2 in refusing to direct public inquiry into sentencing policy
following suicide in custody of highly vulnerable 16 year old, Joseph Scholes, who killed himself in a Young Offender Institute. |
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| R (Headley and Hindawi) v Home Secretary (2006) | |
| The House of Lords held that the legislative regime governing the release of foreign prisoners violated A14 ECHR. |
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| R (Roberts) v Parole Board (2005) | |
| The House of Lords considered whether the Parole Board was entitled to adopt a closed hearing and Special Advocate procedure for the parole hearing of a mandatory lifer. |
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| R (Nejad) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (2004) | |
| This judicial review concerned the Secretary of State's decision not to reduce Nejad's tariff, where N had been sentenced to five concurrent discretionary life sentences for his involvement in the 1980 siege at the Iranian Embassy in London. Tim Owen QC appeared for N. |
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| R (Cawser) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (2003) | |
| The Court of Appeal considered the State's obligation to provide sex offenders with treatment for their behaviour. The case raised important issues about prisoners' rights to liberty under Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Tim Owen QC appeared for C and Rabinder Singh QC and Sam Grodzinski represented the Secretary of State. |
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| R (Hindawi) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (2004) | |
| The Court of Appeal considered whether a sentence that was lawfully imposed on a prisoner satisfied his rights under Aticle 5 of the Human Rights Act 1998 until the end of his sentence term. Tim Owen QC appeared for H and X. |
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