Brooks, Regina (on The Application of) v The Independent Adjudicator and Another: CA 28 Oct 2016

Appeal by the Secretary of State from an order declaring that the detention of the claimant for a period of 11 days following the expiry of the custodial element of a sentence imposed upon him in the Crown Court was a breach of his rights protected by Article 5(1) of European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR) and was entitled to damages as just satisfaction for that breach.

Jackson McCombie LJJ
[2016] EWCA Civ 1033
Bailii
European Convention on Human Rights 5(1)
England and Wales

Prisons, Human Rights

Updated: 24 January 2022; Ref: scu.570642