The Weekly Law Reports
[1998] 1 WLR 503
[COURT OF APPEAL]
REGINA v. SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT, Ex parte STAFFORD
1997 Oct. 21;
Nov. 26
Nov. 26
Lord Bingham of Cornhill C.J., Morritt and Buxton L.JJ.
Prisons
— Prisoners' rights
— Release on licence
— Mandatory life sentence prisoner
— Prisoner committing non-violent offences while released on licence
— Expiry of punitive element of sentence and risk of violent re-offending assessed as minimal
— Secretary of State refusing to direct release
— Whether refusal unlawful
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Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53), s. 35