The Weekly Law Reports
[2004] 1 WLR 2223
Court of Appeal
Regina (Clift)
v
Secretary of State for the Home Department
[2004] EWCA Civ 514
2004 April 5;
29
Lord Woolf CJ, Rix and Carnwath LJJ
Prisons
— Prisoners' rights
— Release on licence
— Prisoner serving 18-year sentence recommended by Parole Board for release on licence
— Home Secretary rejecting recommendation
— No power to reject recommendation if prisoner serving determinate sentence less than 15 years
— Whether differential treatment constituting discrimination in enjoyment of right to liberty
—
Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c 53), ss. 35, 50
—
Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch. 1, Pt I, arts 5, 14
—
Parole Board (Transfer of Functions) Order 1998 (SI 1998/3218), art 2
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Lord Woolf CJ
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