The Law Reports (Appeal Cases)
[2024] AC 130
Supreme Court
Morgan and others
v
Ministry of Justice
[2023] UKSC 14
2023 Feb 22; April 19
Lord Reed PSC, Lord Sales, Lord Hamblen, Lord Burrows, Lord Stephens JJSC
Prisons— Prisoners’ rights— Release on licence— Terrorist offenders sentenced to determinate terms of imprisonment— Legislation subsequently extending period to be served in custody before terrorist offenders released on licence— Whether legislation incompatible with Convention rights— Whether breaching prohibition on retroactive imposition of “penalty”— Whether breaching qualitative requirements for law authorising deprivation of liberty—
Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, arts 5(1), 7(1)
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Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Act 2021 (c 11), s 30
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Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 (SI 2008/1216 (NI 1)), arts 7, 8, 20A
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