The Law Reports (Appeal Cases)
[1998] AC 407
[HOUSE OF LORDS]
REGINA v. SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT, Ex parte VENABLES
REGINA v. SAME, Ex parte THOMPSON
[CONJOINED APPEALS]
1996 July 1,
2,
3,
30;
1997 Jan. 27, 28, 29, 30;
June 12
1997 Jan. 27, 28, 29, 30;
June 12
Lord Woolf M.R., Hobhouse and Morritt L.JJ. Lord Goff of Chieveley, Lord Browne-Wilkinson, Lord Lloyd of Berwick, Lord Steyn and Lord Hope of Craighead
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 taking representations of public opinion into account
— Whether 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), ss. 44(1) (as amended by Children and Young Persons Act 1969 (c. 54), s. 72(4), Sch. 6), 53(1) (as substituted by Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 (c. 71), s. 1(5))
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Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53), ss. 35(2)(3), 43