See also our list of reported and notable prison law cases which includes links to news stories providing additional commentary and judgments.

Prison Law Bulletin - July 2011

• Sentence Calculation (Elam v SSJ) – post-Noone case
• Category A – Oral Hearings (Longmire v SSJ; Mackay v SSJ)
• Adjudications – Religious Discrimination (Bashir v Independent Adjudicator) > news story
• Foreign National Prisoners – Open Conditions (Omoregbee v SSJ)
• HDC – Discrimination (Young v Gov HMP Highdown)
• Recall (Jorgenson v SSJ) > news story
• PSIs – PSI 32/2011 and PSI 11/2011

Prison Law Bulletin - January 2011

• Voting rights (Chester v SSJ and Greens & MT v UK)
• Oral hearings (Osborn & Booth) > news story
• Delay - damages (Faulkner v SSJ)

Prison Law Bulletin - August 2010

• HDC (Noone) > news story
• Failure to provide oral hearing - (Roose v SSJ and the PB)
• Refusal to re-categorise (Krstic) > news story
• Coroners & Justice Act 2009
• Risk Aversity and the Parole Board
• PSI 36/2010 - The Indeterminate Sentences Manual (PSO 4700)
• Party Poopers - PSI 38/2010

Prison Law Bulletin - June 2010

• Early release (Robinson v SSJ)
• HDC Recall - Appeals procedure (McAlinden v SSHD)
• Adjudication Appeals
• Sexual orientation discrimination
• Categorisation and OBPs

Prison Law Bulletin - March 2010

• New PSIs
• Indeterminate sentences; Disability Discrimination Act; access to coursework (Gill v SSJ)
• Foreign national prisoners; discrimination; compliance with statutory duty EHRC v SSJ)
• Repatriated prisoners; article 5 (Orobator v HMP Holloway & Anor)
• Licence conditions; Probation Service (O'Dowd (Boy George) v National Probation Service London)
• Sentencing; Home Detention Curfew (Round & Anor v R)
• Indeterminate sentences; category D (Guittard) > news story
• IEP scheme (Hewlett v SSJ)
• Parole Board delay and Article 5(4) (Hoole v PB, Degainis v SSJ, Gray v SSJ and Johnson v SSJ)

Prison Law Bulletin - January 2010

• Transfer to open conditions without PB recommendation (Guittard) > news story
• Oral Hearings - the battle begins
• Parole Intervals (Johnson v SSJ)
• Consenting to punishment (KB v SSJ)
• Penalising offenders in denial (Hewlett v SSJ)
• And finally...

Prison Law Bulletin - November 2009

• Parole Board Delay and Indeterminate Sentence Prisoners - the current state of the law
• Prisoners serving indeterminate sentences who are not able to progress to release due to the lack of availability of relevant coursework (James, Lee & Wells) > news story
• Pure delay cases (Faulknerv SSJ, Betteridge v PB and Pennington v PB)

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