‘A Pakistani man can sue the UK government over claims he was unlawfully detained and tortured by British soldiers in Iraq, the High Court has ruled. Yunus Rahmatullah was captured in 2004, then sent from British to US custody and held for 10 years without charge.’
BBC News, 19th November 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘An application for habeas corpus by a pressure group was completely “hopeless” and “entirely misconceived”. The appellant’s challenge to the decision of the judge below was equally devoid of merit. Third party applications are only appropriate where the prisoner is incommunicado or where the impediment preventing the prisoner from acting is ignorance or disability. It was entirely inappropriate in these circumstances, where the prisoner had been represented by counsel throughout the proceedings which resulted in her imprisonment, or where her detention had already ended before the application for habeas corpus was made.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 18th November 2014
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘The Detention Centre in Bedfordshire – privately run, but publicly funded – has a dreadful reputation for its treatment of asylum seekers. Cole Moreton found a way inside to see if its notoriety is deserved.’
The Independent, 16th November 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The law will be changed so that 17-year-olds held in police custody are treated as minors and placed in local authority care, Policing Minister Mike Penning has said. This move followed a campaign on behalf of 17-year-olds, who argued that the police had wrongly treated them as though they were adults by holding them in overnight detention.’
Local Government Lawyer, 13th November 2014
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The major piece of criminal law legislation for 2014 is the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act. It has been brought gradually into force throughout the year.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 3rd November 2014
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Kesia Leatherbarrow broke a window trying to enter a residential care home for ex-addicts to visit a friend. When officers arrested the 17-year-old, they discovered a small quantity of cannabis. She spent two nights and three days in police custody; a few hours after being released, she hanged herself.’
The Guardian, 2nd November 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
K v Kingswood Centre and another [2014] EWCA Civ 1332; [2014] WLR (D) 443
‘The notice period of a discharge order made for the purposes of section 25 of the Mental Health Act 1983 and served in accordance with regulation 3(3)(b)(i) of the Mental Health (Hospital, Guardianship and Treatment) (England) Regulations 2008 started to run from the time when it was received by the officer authorised by the hospital managers and not from the time when it was received at the hospital’s fax machine.’
WLR Daily, 23rd October 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘The High Court has ruled that in a case against the state which did not directly affect the liberty of the subject, there was no irreducible minimum of disclosure of the state’s case which the court would require. The consequences of such disclosure for national security prevailed.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 27th October 2014
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘All those subject to the Detained Fast Track policy, operated by the Secretary of State, for the detention of some asylum seekers while their asylum claims were being determined would now have four clear working days from allocation of a lawyer to substantive interview.’
WLR Daily, 9th October 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘Chris Grayling is to defy an appeal court judgement and order that staff should be able to use force to restrain teenage inmates for “the purposes of good order and discipline” at his proposed £85m privately run “super-child jail.” The proposed rule for the justice secretary’s 320-place “secure college” comes despite a court of appeal ruling in 2008 which banned the use of force after it was linked to the deaths and injury of several children in custody, including the death of a 14-year-old Gareth Myatt.’
The Guardian, 16th October 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A serious case review is launched after mass killer Barry Williams is able to disappear following his release from Broadmoor by changing his name to Harry Street.’
Daily Telegraph, 6th October 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg has today walked free from prison after seven terror charges connected to Syria against him were dropped.’
Daily Telegraph, 1st October 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The family of a 26-year-old man who died at an immigration detention centre have called for an urgent independent inquiry saying they have concerns about the circumstances surrounding his death.’
The Guardian, 7th September 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘When determining the lawfulness of the continued immigration detention of a person with mental illness the court’s role was to supervise the decisions made by the Home Secretary for their compliance with the law, applying the Wednesbury test of unreasonableness, and was not that of a primary decision-maker such that it had to make its own choice between medical experts.’
WLR Daily, 17th July 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘Last week, a jury at the inquest into the death of American tourist Brian Dalrymple, who died after being detained at the Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre (pictured), delivered a verdict of ‘natural causes contributed to by neglect’. The jury’s verdict amounted to a finding that there were gross failures in the medical care Brian received which caused or contributed to his death.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 21st July 2014
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The Detained Fast Track policy, operated by the Secretary of State, for the detention of some asylum seekers while their asylum claims were being determined was not unlawful in its terms.’
WLR Daily, 9th July 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Walker v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis: [2014] EWCA Civ 897; [2014] WLR (D) 289
‘The triviality of a person’s detention by a police officer who was not exercising the power of arrest did not prevent that detention from being unlawful and amounting to false imprisonment.’
WLR Daily, 1st July 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘Court of Appeal said ‘aggressive and truculent’ man’s initial detention was unlawful and amounted to false imprisonment.’
Daily Telegraph, 1st July 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Prosecutors say there is “insufficient evidence” to charge anyone after the death of a man detained under the Mental Health Act.’
BBC News, 1st July 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Deported asylum seekers who have made allegations of inappropriate sexual behaviour by staff at the Yarl’s Wood detention centre are to be called before an ongoing parliamentary inquiry.’
The Guardian, 28th June 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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