The Weekly Law Reports
[2011] 1 WLR 2667
Queen’s Bench Division
*Regina (King) v Secretary of State for Justice
[2010] EWHC 2522 (Admin)
2010 June 10,
11,
23,
24;
Oct 13
Pitchford LJ, Maddison J
Prisons— Prisoners’ rights— Disciplinary proceedings— Detainee in young offender institution charged with disciplinary offence— Governor accepting guilty plea and imposing penalty of three days’ cellular confinement— Whether detainee’s right to associate with other detainees “civil right”— Whether hearing amounting to “determination” of that right— Whether hearing breach of detainee’s Convention right to fair trial because governor not independent tribunal— Whether availability of judicial review securing compliance with Convention—
Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, art 6.1