> members of the prison law team

We undertake the full range of work in this area, including judicial review, civil actions against the Home Office, adjudication hearings, representation before lifer, parole, and recall panels, death penalty cases, Categorisation of prisoners in particular Cat A and calculation of sentence.

Garden Court North Chambers is alone in the North of England in its degree of expertise in this specialist area and recent cases undertaken include Ezeh & Connors v UK [2004] 39 EHRR 1 (regarding Article 6 in prison adjudications); SSJ v James and Lee [2009] UKHL 22 (IPP sentenced prisoners); R on the application of Middleton v Sec of State Home Dept [2004] 2 AC 182. (leading case on application of Article 2 to Inquest proceedings and the ambit of neglect verdicts); R v Gov of Brockhill Prison, ex parte Evans (No.1) [1997] 2WLR236 (calculation of remand time); R v Brockhill Prison, ex parte Evans (No 2) [2000] 3WLR 843. (Leading false imprisonment case); R v Stocker [2003] 2 CrAppR(S) 54, CA, and R v Bingham [2004] (cases on the relationship between remand time, administrative recall and Section 116 orders).

Reported cases

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Seminars and legal training

Click here to view details of recent Prison Law seminars and seminar papers. A comprehensive 5-day prison law course is also available.

Members of our prison law team also provide in-house training to solicitors. The team have recently provided training covering topics such as:

• an overview of prisoners' rights
• prisoners and human rights
• the duty to give reasons in decisions relating to prisoners
• Judicial Review of decisions relating to prisoners

The team are able to tailor any training to your specific needs and so would be happy to discuss any other ideas you may have for topics. Contact Helen Ray for more details.

Prison law legal updates

Chambers produces occasional Prison law legal updates. For more information click on the link below.