The court considered whether the system of home detention was capable of amounting to a detention.
Held: The home detention curfew system satisfied the requirements of Article 5.
Judges:
Cranston J
Citations:
[2008] EWHC 1787 (QB), [2009] 1 All ER 1128, [2009] 1 WLR 509
Links:
Statutes:
European Convention on Human Rights 5(4)
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Young, Regina (on The Application of) v Governor of Her Majesty’s Prison Highdown and Another Admn 6-Apr-2011
The claimant complained that he had not been considered for early release on Home Detention Curfew because the policy refused to allow those convicted of knife crimes to be so considered, and: ‘the failure to include other offences in the list of . .
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Human Rights, Prisons
Updated: 16 May 2022; Ref: scu.271311