[2011] EWHC 867 (Admin)

Prison Service Instruction 31/2003, which indicated that prisoners serving sentences for offences involving the possession of offensive weapons or bladed articles were presumed to be unsuitable for release on home detention curfew, was neither discriminatory nor unlawful, and nor was it in violation of the European Convention on Human Rights 1950 art.8.

QBD (Admin) (Lord Carlile of Berriew QC)

06/04/2011