Practice and Procedure

R (ON THE APPLICATION OF D.T.) V SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (2004)

PUBLISHED January 20, 2004
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[2004] EWHC 13 (Admin)

In ordering the detention of a 16-year-old girl in prison under the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 s.92 the secretary of state did not act contrary to the detainee's rights under the European Convention on Human Rights 1950 Art.8 , the Children Act 1989 and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child or contrary to his own stated policy or Prison Service Orders.

QBD (Admin) (Hooper J)

20/01/2004

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