Dixon, Regina (on The Application of) v The Secretary of State for Justice: Admn 30 Sep 2015

‘the claimant, a former prisoner at HMP Manchester, complains of what he says was unacceptable delay by the prison service in 2013-2014 in providing a psychological assessment and report which the parole board had recommended should be obtained in respect of him. He contends that the unacceptable delay was of the order of 5.5 months, alternatively 4 months, and that but for that delay he would have been released from prison on licence earlier by an equivalent period. He seeks: (a) a declaration that the defendant, as the minister responsible for the prison service, acted in breach of duty under public law and/or article 5.4 of the European Convention on Human Rights; and (b) damages for breach of those duties.’

Stephen Davies HHJ
[2015] EWHC 2712 (Admin)
Bailii
England and Wales

Prisons

Updated: 09 November 2021; Ref: scu.562469