Successful challenge to the refusal of the Coroner to hold an inquest into the death of an elderly man, one of a number of residents to die in suspicious circumstances in a care home in Birmingham.
Concerned whether anti-war protesters charges with criminal damage could argue in their defence that they were preventing an unlawful crime of aggression.
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.
Charles Taylor, the former President of Liberia, applied to have his indictment quashed and the warrant for his arrest set aside on the grounds that he was a Head of State at the time of the issuing of the documents and was therefore immune from prosecution.
The case concerned prison disciplinary hearings in which the prisoner faced an award of additional days counted as ‘criminal charges’ for the purpose of the Convention.
