The Weekly Law Reports
[2005] 3 WLR 422
House of Lords
Regina (Dudson)
v
Secretary of State for the Home Department
[2005] UKHL 52
2005 June 21;
July 28
July 28
Lord Bingham of Cornhill, Lord Nicholls of Birkenhead, Lord Hoffmann, Lord Hope of Craighead and Baroness Hale of Richmond
Prisons
— Prisoners' rights
— Release on licence
— Child offender convicted of murder
— Detention during Her Majesty's pleasure
— Tariff to be served before release on licence considered
— Secretary of State fixing tariff period following recommendation of Lord Chief Justice
— Whether prisoner entitled to oral hearing before Lord Chief Justice
— Whether lack of oral hearing breaching Convention right to fair trial
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Children and Young Persons Act 1933 (23 & 24 Geo 5, c 12) (as amended by Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 (c 71), s. 1(5) and Children and Young Persons Act 1969 (c 54), s. 72(4), Sch. 6), ss. 44(1), 53(1)
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Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch. 1, Pt I, art 6(1)