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R (on the application of HC (A CHILD BY HIS LITIGATION FRIEND CC) v (1) SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (2) COMMISSIONER OF POLICE OF THE METROPOLIS (2013)

PUBLISHED April 25, 2013
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[2013] EWHC 982 (Admin)

The Home Secretary's refusal to revise Code C of the Code of Practice under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 so as to distinguish the procedures applicable to a 17-year-old detainee in police custody from those applicable to an adult was unlawful. Treating 17-year-olds in detention as adults was contrary to the European Convention on Human Rights 1950 art.8.

QBD (Admin) (Moses LJ, Kenneth Parker J)

25/04/2013

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