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PRISONERS LOSE LEGAL CHALLENGE
Prisoners who took jobs outside jail have lost their High Court claim that a levy on their wages which goes to victim support is too high. A judge in London rejected “on all grounds” their challenge...
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PLANE TERRORIST LOSES FREEDOM BID
A convicted terrorist who has served 26 years in prison for trying to blow up an Israeli airliner lost his latest High Court bid for parole today. Lawyers for Nezar Hindawi, 57, argued that he no...
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JUDGES HIDES KILLER’S IDENTITY
A High Court judge has used human rights laws to give anonymity to a notorious killer who is seeking to be moved to an open prison. The man is currently challenging a Parole Board decision refusing...
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BARRY GEORGE LOSES DANDO COMPENSATION CLAIM
Barry George, who spent eight years in prison after being wrongly convicted of the murder of TV presenter Jill Dando in Fulham, west London, has lost his High Court bid for compensation as a victim of...
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Ashfield Prison punished children unlawfully, High Court rules
A privately-run children’s prison unlawfully punished seven boys after they were involved in a protest over conditions on their wing, a High Court judge ruled today (Thursday 7 March). Ashfield...
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Court Refuses to Downgrade Cat A Jail Killer
A killer convicted of murdering a paedophile in a top security jail in Cambridgeshire has failed to persuade a High Court judge to soften his prison regime. Michael Cain complained that prison bosses...
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Death Row Briton Loses Funding Bid
British grandmother Lindsay Sandiford, 56, has lost her appeal over a UK Government refusal to fund her legal challenge against a death sentence imposed by an Indonesian court for drug smuggling. Her...
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Government’s transfer to open prison policy: Unlawful
Ford Open Prison A policy that prioritised the transfer to open conditions of post-tariff prisoners ahead of pre-tariff prisoners was a breach of the Secretary of State for Justice’s duty to allow...
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RIP: Prison Law Legal Aid
By Andrew Sperling, Chair of Association of Prison Lawyers Legal aid for prisoners is under attack again and this time it may be terminal. The government’s proposals in a Consultation Paper called...
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Supreme Court Rules Against Government Today – Twice!
Two important human right decisions go against the Government in the Supreme Court Prisoner Oral Hearings http://www.supremecourt.gov.uk/decided-cases/docs/UKSC_2011_0147_PressSummary.pdf Detained...
View ArticleDuggan Family Legal Challenge To Go Ahead
Leading judges have given the go-ahead for a legal challenge over police practices linked to the shooting of a man whose death sparked nationwide riots. The decision by three Court of Appeal judges in...
View ArticleLegal Challenge – but is there really a ban on prisoners having books?
The government’s so-called ban on prisoners receiving books is facing a legal challenge, with one prisons expert asserting there is no ban on books at all. The Ministry of Justice and secretary of...
View ArticlePrison book ban ruled unlawful
READ THE FULL JUDGEMENT HERE A prisoner who says she loves reading has won a High Court battle against Justice Secretary Chris Grayling’s controversial restrictions on jail inmates receiving books from...
View ArticleMPs given permission to challenge the Government in Court
Two MPs have been given the green light to legally challenge the Government over the introduction of controversial legislation which gives police and security services access to people’s phone and...
View ArticlePeers stand firm on Judicial Review
Peers have inflicted another defeat on the Government as they stood firm in their battle with the House of Commons over judicial review. The House of Lords voted by 274 votes to 205, majority 69, to...
View ArticleSmoking ban in prison – legal challenge
A legal battle is being fought by an inmate in Lancashire to give prisoners the right to report unauthorised smoking in jail – including by prison staff – via a confidential health hotline. Paul Black,...
View ArticlePrison smoking ban ruling due today
A prisoner learns today whether he has won the unrestricted right to report unauthorised smoking in jail via a confidential health hotline. Paul Black, who is held at HMP Wymott in Lancashire and says...
View ArticlePrisoner wins landmark ruling on prison smoking.
A prisoner has won a landmark ruling that the ban on smoking in public places applies to state prisons and all Crown premises. A High Court judge made the ruling despite fears that rigorously imposing...
View ArticleOpen Prison Absconder Policy Upheld On Appeal
A High Court ruling that a policy of excluding prisoners with a history of absconding from being transferred to more lenient open conditions is unlawful has been overturned. The Government’s policy was...
View ArticleTerror prisoners segregation was unlawful
Two high-profile terrorist prisoners, including one held in Cambridgeshire, who were segregated for extended periods have won challenges at the UK’s highest court. Five Supreme Court justices in London...
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