Tag: Parole Board
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Lewis Graham: Who Wins and Who Loses Before the Administrative Court?
Despite the Ministry of Justice releasing some helpful but limited data relating to judicial reviews, it is hard to know who wins, and who loses, before the Administrative Court. In an attempt to find out the answer, I designed and populated a dataset covering all reported cases handed down by the Administrative Court in 2024.…
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Gabriel Tan: A confused approach to irrationality: Oakley and Sneddon v Secretary of State for Justice
On 28 October 2024, the Court of Appeal handed down its eagerly-awaited judgment in Oakley and Sneddon v Secretary of State for Justice, concerning the proper approach to cases where the Secretary of State rejects advice from the Parole Board to transfer prisoners to open prison conditions. As the Court recognised, there has recently been an “accretion of…
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Gabriel Tan and Lewis Graham: A Quiet Revolution – Rationality and the Parole Board
It is not that often that first instance judges in judicial review claims disagree as to the approach to be taken in the context of a core question relating to judicial review. When it happens, administrative lawyers are bound to take notice. This has most recently occurred in the context of rationality challenges to decisions…
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Nick Barber: The Decline of Mercy
Many years ago, I was invited to speak on the radio about the obligation to obey the law. One comment made a lasting impression on me. In the course of a wide-ranging, and fickle, survey of the law’s relationship with morality, the judge in our group declared that one of the great things about the…