“Torture victims who have been held in British immigration detention centres are to launch a high court legal challenge for false imprisonment against the UK Border Agency.”
The Guardian, 22nd May 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A report by the Refugee Council to be published this week accuses the immigration service of continuing to detain child asylum seekers by wrongly classifying them as adults.”
The Guardian, 20th May 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A Jamaican convicted criminal who claims he was illegally detained before being deported from Britain has won a nominal £1 in damages from the Home Office – after a costly taxpayer-funded legal battle.”
Daily Telegraph, 14th May 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“More owners of dangerous dogs will be imprisoned, under guidelines issued to judges and magistrates by the Sentencing Council.”
The Guardian, 15th May 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The UK Border Agency is detaining children in ‘degrading and disgraceful’ conditions at Heathrow, according to an official watchdog.”
The Guardian, 14th May 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Judgment in MS v UK from European court leaves publicly funded authorities threatened with litigation from all sides.”
The Guardian, 3rd May 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A violent mentally ill man who was kept in a police cell for more than three days without medical treatment suffered ‘inhuman or degrading treatment’, European human rights judges have ruled.”
Daily Telegraph, 3rd May 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Regina (Raeside) v Luton Crown Court [2012] WLR (D) 120
“The purpose of a custody time limit would be undermined if the court granted an extension under section 22(3) of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 in anything other than exceptional circumstances, and in the absence of the express consent of the defendant to the extension of that limit, the court must direct that an immediate application is made by the Crown and rigorously scrutinise the evidence to see if it is satisfied that there is good and sufficient cause.”
WLR Daily, 23rd April 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The detention of a mentally ill person in an Immigration Removal Centre (IRC) amounted to inhuman and degrading treatment and false imprisonment, and was irrational, the High Court has ruled.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 23rd April 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“In the wake of France’s apparently unencumbered expulsion of individuals on public interest grounds there has been a fresh outcry from the press about the shackles imposed by the Human Rights Convention on the UK authorities which other signatory states seem to ignore with impunity.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 7th April 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The Guardian has been given exclusive access to a unit in West Yorkshire trying new ways to reach the most disturbed children.”
The Guardian, 6th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Plans setting out how custody for children and young people will be developed over the next three years have today [26 March] been published by the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales. (YJB)”
Youth Justice Board, 26th March 2012
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“The country’s second most senior judge was yesterday forced to admit defeat in attempts to secure the release of a terrorism suspect from American custody.”
Daily Telegraph, 23rd February 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The detention of victims of torture and trafficking by the UK Border Agency pending their ‘fast-track’ deportation from Britain has been strongly criticised by the UN.”
The Guardian, 23rd February 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Home Office has paid compensation of more than £1m, plus £1m costs, in a case involving 40 child asylum seekers who were wrongly detained as adults, it has been reported.”
The Independent, 18th February 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The Islamist preacher Abu Qatada could be deported to Jordan if Strasbourg is given ‘watertight guarantees’ he will not be tried on evidence extracted under torture, Europe’s most senior human rights official has signalled.”
The Guardian, 16th February 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Female prisoners should be allowed time out of jail to see their children, the High Court ruled yesterday after dismissing Kenneth Clarke’s attempts to restrict women from doing so.”
Daily Telegraph, 14th February 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Mitting J has ruled that in the light of the recent Strasbourg ruling that the appellant could not be returned to Jordan, his detention could not continue. Under the so-called ‘Hardial Singh’ principles, the Secretary of State must intend to deport the person and can only use the power to detain for that purpose, and the deportee may only be detained for a period that is reasonable in all the circumstances.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 9th February 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The attorney general, Dominic Grieve, has voiced his concern over a decision to release the radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada on bail but added that courts could not allow people to be held in indefinite detention without trial.”
The Guardian, 7th February 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A Cameroonian playwright and her husband who are under threat of deportation from the UK have been released from a detention centre.”
BBC News, 27th January 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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