The appellants challenged dismissal of their claims for judicial review of their detention following conviction and for alleged breaches by the respondent of public law duty and violation of Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. Each complained of the delays in their release following decisions by the Parole Board … Continue reading Bowen v Secretary of State for Justice: CA 20 Dec 2017
The applicant appealed against her conviction for gross negligence manslaughter. Her half sister had died of a heroin overdose. Instead of calling for assistance when she had complained, the defendant and her mother had put the deceased to bed fearing that they would themselves be in trouble if she was taken to hospital. Held: Where … Continue reading Evans (Gemma), Regina v: CACD 2 Apr 2009
The Court considered a complaint that Article 10 had been infringed by the applicant’s conviction of an offence of publishing obscene items, consisting of paintings which were said ‘mostly to offend the sense of sexual propriety of persons of ordinary sensitivity’. Held: There was no breach of Article 10 ‘Artists and those who promote their … Continue reading Muller And Others v Switzerland: ECHR 24 May 1988
Orse Attorney General’s Reference No 2 of 2001
The AG sought to appeal from the decision that an indictment against the seven defendants should be stayed on the ground that there had been a breach of Article 6(1). They were accused of . .
