Scott Baker J stated that: ‘it is incumbent upon the Parole Board to have before it the widest possible information.’ The range of information which may be relevant to that assessment is a broad one.
In stressing the need for the applicant to have ‘a full and proper opportunity of answering to the Parole Board the detailed allegations made’, Scott Baker J stated: ‘But it seems to me that it would be quite wrong that the Parole Board should be deprived of the opportunity of seeing material of this nature [post-trial report] and of hearing anything that a prisoner has to say about it . . it may well be that in a particular case they are of some significance in the context of the evidence as a whole.’ adding that he was sure: ‘That the Parole Board panel is well able to evaluate the weight that ought to be given to unsubstantiated hearsay evidence.’
Scott Baker J
[1997] EWHC Admin 808
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – McGetrick, Regina (on The Application of) v Parole Board and Another CA 14-Mar-2013
The claimant prisoner appealed against refusal of review of the use of allegations and evidence of offences not tried against him when deciding as to his release on licence. The material would suggest that he might pose a continuing risk to . .
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Prisons
Updated: 03 January 2022; Ref: scu.137753