Parole Board Hearings

Law and Practice

Hamish Arnott, Simon Creighton (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

416 Seiten

2010 | 2nd Revised edition
Legal Action Group (Verlag)
978-1-903307-64-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Parole Board Hearings: law and practice continues to be the only book dedicated to covering the decision-making powers and procedures of the Parole Board It provides practical and detailed guidance on representation, challenging decisions, risk assessments, hearing procedure, life sentence review, licences, recall and remedies. In the four years since the publication of the first edition there have been significant developments in the parole review process. This second edition has been fully updated to include:the Parole Board (Amendment) Rules 2009 with commentary on the implications of discretionary hearings for IPP prisoners; analysis of the House of Lord decision in James on Article 5 and delays; the new procedures for victims' attendance at parole hearings and coverage of the proposed changes to the public funding of parole cases. Parole Board Hearings: law and practice is essential reading for lawyers, advisers, prisoners and their families, and all those working within prisons and for the prison and probation services and related bodies.

Autor

Hamish Arnott is a solicitor at Bhatt Murphy. He has been a solicitor at the Prisoners' Advice Service and the Public Law Project. He specialises in prison law and the rights of detainees. He also teaches extensively in areas related to his practice. Simon Creighton is a solicitor and founding partner of Bhatt Murphy. He was based at the Prisoners' Advice Service between 1993 and 1998 as its first lawyer. At Bhatt Murphy he specialises in prison law, working particularly with life sentenced prisoners. He has worked on many public law challenges and applications to the European Court of Human Rights. He writes extensively on prison law and compiles the twice-yearly prison law update for Legal Action with Hamish Arnott.

Inhalt

The Parole Board / Other Agencies involved in the parole process / Public funding / Assessment of risk/ Determinate Sentences: an overview / The release of determinate sentence prisoners / Indeterminate sentences: an overview / Serving the life sentence/ The test for release / Reviews of life sentences by the Parole Board / Oral hearing procedure / Licences / Recall to prison / Remedies / Appendices

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.1.2010
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 148 x 210 mm
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• ISBN-10: 1-903307-64-3 / 1903307643
• ISBN-13: 978-1-903307-64-9 / 9781903307649
• Zustand: Neuware