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Mason v Ministry of Justice: QBD 28 Jul 2008

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:

Bailii

Statutes:

European Convention on Human Rights 5(4)

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Cited by:

CitedYoung, 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 . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.

Human Rights, Prisons

Updated: 16 May 2022; Ref: scu.271311

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