Ex Parte Blackstock: Admn 6 Oct 1997

The applicant appealed a refusal of leave to apply for a judicial review of the refusal of the parole board to move him, as a prisoner serving a life sentence, to a lower security prison. The application should no reasonable prospects of success, and leave was denied. The court would not order the prisons service to bear the additional costs of him being transported from prison to court.

Lord Justice Brooke, Mr Justice Gage
[1997] HC Admin 831
England and Wales

Prisons

Updated: 03 January 2022; Ref: scu.137776