Whether the assessment on the part of the Respondent, the Department of Justice (‘the Department’), that by July 2018 Michael Stone (hereinafter ‘the prisoner/Mr Stone’), a convicted murderer of some notoriety sentenced to life imprisonment in 1988 and whose victims include the brother of the Applicant, Thomas McErlean deceased (‘the deceased’), had served the judicially determined minimum term (or tariff) of 30 years imprisonment is vitiated by illegality.
Judges:
Mccloskey J and Colton J
Citations:
[2019] NIQB 10
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Jurisdiction:
Northern Ireland
Cited by:
Appeal from – McGuinness, Re Application for Judicial Review (No 2) SC 19-Feb-2020
The claimant challenged the calculation of the release date from prison after conviction of MS of the murder of her husband. The AG also argued that the proper appeal was to the Court of Appeal from Northern Ireland and not the Supreme Court.
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Updated: 11 July 2022; Ref: scu.636816