The Home Secretary has an extraordinarily wide discretion to refuse to release a mandatory lifer after the punitive part of sentence if there was a remaining risk to the public.
Citations:
Times 28-Nov-1997, [1997] EWCA Civ 2830
Statutes:
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Appeal from – Regina v Secretary of State For The Home Department Ex Parte Stafford HL 12-Mar-1998
The Home Secretary had the right not to follow a Parole Board’s recommendation to release a prisoner after the service of the tariff part of his sentence, where he was satisfied that the offender would commit further offences, even if those offences . .
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Criminal Sentencing
Updated: 17 November 2022; Ref: scu.143229