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R (ON THE APPLICATION OF JOHN HOPE TAYLOR) V SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (2000)

PUBLISHED October 25, 2000
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A stay was ordered on the issue of the secretary of state's power to set the tariff in the case of mandatory life sentence prisoners on the basis that the power was incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights 1950 Art.6 , pending the court's decision on the point in another case.

DC (Pill LJ, Potts J)

25/10/2000

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