The Weekly Law Reports
[1997] 2 WLR 67
[COURT OF APPEAL]
REGINA v. SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT, Ex parte VENABLES
REGINA v. SAME, Ex parte THOMPSON
1996 July 1,
2,
3;
30
Lord Woolf M.R., Hobhouse and Morritt L.JJ.
Prisons
— Prisoners' rights
— Release on licence
— Child offenders convicted of murder
— Detention during Her Majesty's pleasure
— Secretary of State fixing tariff period by application of policy adopted for adult life prisoners
— Whether policy appropriate
— Secretary of State informing offenders of representations of public opinion and of judicial recommendations
— Whether expressions of public opinion relevant
— Whether sufficient disclosure of material taken into account
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Children and Young Persons Act 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 12), s. 53 (as amended by Criminal Justice Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6, c. 58), s. 83, Sch. 10, Pt. I; Criminal Justice Act 1961 (9 & 10 Eliz. 2, c. 39), ss. 2(1), 41(1)(3), Sch. 4 and Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 (c. 71), s. 1(5))
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Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53), ss. 35, 43