McCombe v The United Kingdom: ECHR 12 Nov 1985

The Commission declared admissible the complaints of a prisoner regarding the censorship of his correspondence with his solicitors. (Settlement: the United Kingdom government agreed to issue instructions that such correspondence would not be opened, save in the presence of the prisoner concerned.)

Citations:

10621/83

Jurisdiction:

Human Rights

Cited by:

CitedRyder v United Kingdom ECHR 19-Jan-1989
The Commission considered whether a prisoner whose rule 39 mail had been opened on 3 occasions in a 15 day period with a further letter having gone missing altogether claimed to be a victim of a violation of article 8.
Held: Inadmissible. The . .
CitedBruton v The Governor of HMP Swaleside and Another Admn 19-Apr-2017
The prisoner complained that his protected correspondence had been wrongfully opened by prison staff. Despite a finding in his favour by the Prisons Ombudsman, the service had repeatedly failed either to change its behaviour or to apologise.
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.

Human Rights, Prisons

Updated: 06 May 2022; Ref: scu.582166