Criminal Law Review

In 1979 a group of inmates who were in Hull prison in the United Kingdom at the time of the prison riots instructed a prison law solicitor to take legal action against the authorities for subjecting the alleged ringleaders to harsh disciplinary action by removal of remission without any legal representation. The High Court case was won on appeal and within a few years a raft of prisoner’s rights had been established, that did not previously exist, including the right to legal representation, the right to judicial review by the House of Lords and the right for all decisions made by a prison Governor to be reviewed by the High Court.

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