The Weekly Law Reports
[2021] 3 WLR 494
Supreme Court
Regina (AB) v Secretary of State for Justice (Equality and Human Rights Commission intervening)
[2021] UKSC 28
2021 Jan 20, 21; July 9
Lord Reed PSC, Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lord Sales, Lord Hamblen, Lord Stephens JJSC
Prisons— Prisoners’ rights— Removal from association— Young offender removed from association with other detainees— Whether breaching Convention right not to be subjected to inhuman or degrading treatment— Whether removal from association or solitary confinement of any person aged under 18 automatically breaching such right— Whether domestic courts able to establish new principles of Convention law—
Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, art 3