The Court considered whether a sufficient causal connection existed between the applicant’s original conviction and his continuing preventive detention.
Held: The Court expressed concern about the apparent absence of any special measures, instruments or institutions to address the danger presented by persons subject to preventive detention and to limit the duration of their detention, but did so purely in the context of considering whether a sufficient causal connection existed between the applicant’s original conviction and his continuing preventive detention.
Citations:
24478/03, [2010] ECHR 1581
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Statutes:
European Convention on Human Rights
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Cited – Haney and Others, Regina (on The Application of) v The Secretary of State for Justice SC 10-Dec-2014
The four claimants, each serving indeterminate prison sentences, said that as they approached the times when thy might apply for parol, they had been given insufficient support and training to meet the requirements for release. The courts below had . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Human Rights, Prisons
Updated: 25 August 2022; Ref: scu.425434
