A convicted prisoner had a fundamental and basic right to communicate orally with the media through a journalist, in order to challenge the safety of his conviction, and the policy of the Secretary of State for the Home Department made under paragraph 37 and paragraph 37A of Section A of Prison Service Standing Order 5 was unlawful to the event that it interfered with that right.

HL (Lord Browne-Wilkinson, Lord Steyn, Lord Hoffmann, Lord Hobhouse of Woodborough, Lord Millett)

08/07/1999