The claimant challenged the 2012 Regulations saying the the requirement for him to provide details of his banking and other accounts infringed his Article 8 rights.
Held: The Regulations were not incompatible: ‘We do not consider that the means employed are in any way inappropriate or disproportionate. They are plainly a practical and proportionate means of providing further protection to prevent other persons becoming potential victims of those on the Sexual Offenders Register. In reaching that judgment we have taken into account the fact that no power is given to access the accounts and that the information provided by an offender will be securely held. ‘
Sir John Thomas P QBD, Kickinbottom J
[2013] WLR(D) 350, [2013] EWHC 2830 (Admin)
Bailii, WLRD
Sexual Offences Act 2003 (Notification Requirements) (England and Wales) Regulations 2012
England and Wales
Police, Human Rights
Updated: 09 November 2021; Ref: scu.515310
