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R v SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT, EX PARTE JOHN HIRST (2001)

PUBLISHED March 8, 2001
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[2001] EWCA Civ 378

A prisoner who had served the tariff period of a discretionary life sentence was entitled to be told reasons for a proposed re-categorisation and to be afforded the opportunity to make representations on that issue and to reply to grounds put forward to re-categorise him or her.

CA (Civ Div) (Lord Woolf of Barnes LCJ, Dyson LJ, May LJ)

08/03/2001

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