Practice and Procedure

R (on the application of SMITH) v PAROLE BOARD : R (on the application of WEST) v PAROLE BOARD (2005)

PUBLISHED January 27, 2005
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While the common law duty of procedural fairness did not require the Parole Board to hold an oral hearing in every case where a determinate sentence prisoner released on licence resisted his recall to prison, the Parole Board's duty was not as constricted as had hitherto been held and assumed.

[2005] UKHL 1

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