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R V SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT, EX PARTE (1) ANTHONY GARNER (2) JONATHAN IAN CARTER (3) WILLIAM THOMPSON (4) MOHAMED TAWFICK (5) JOHN HENRY TAYLOR (1999)

PUBLISHED April 19, 1999
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The Home Secretary had improperly fettered the exercise of his discretion by not considering whether judicial misconduct was so gross as to give rise to an exceptional circumstance within his statement on 29 November 1985 for ex gratia payments to persons who had wrongfully been detained in custody as a result of wrongful conviction.

QBD (Rose LJ, Richards J)

19/04/1999

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