LAW REPORT: Home Secretary's decision on lifer was lawful

From: The Independent - London | Date: December 12, 1995| Author: Ying Hui Tan, Barrister | Copyright information

Regina v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Pierson; Court of Appeal (Sir Thomas Bingham, Master of the Rolls, Lord Justice Neill and Lord Justice Hirst); 5 December 1995

The task of determining the penal element of the sentence to be served by a mandatory life prisoner had been entrusted to the Home Secretary under section 35 of the Criminal Justice Act 1991, conferring a wide discretion which the court could not curb by attaching conditions not required by procedura...

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