The Law Reports (Appeal Cases)
[2005] 1 AC 1
House of Lords
Regina (Mullen)
v
Secretary of State for the Home Department
[2004] UKHL 18
2004 Feb 19,
23,
24;
April 29
April 29
Lord Bingham of Cornhill, Lord Steyn, Lord Scott of Foscote, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry and Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe
Crime
— Miscarriage of justice
— Statutory compensation
— Court of Appeal quashing claimant's conviction on ground of abuse of process
— No complaint by claimant as to correctness of guilty verdict
— Claimant seeking compensation
— Whether “miscarriage of justice”
— Whether claimant entitled to statutory or ex gratia compensation
—
Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c 33), s. 133
[1]
—
Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch. 1, Pt I, art 6(2)
[2]
—
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1977) (Cmnd 6702), art 14(6)
[3]