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UK: Sentence Reviews

01 August 2001

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On 24 July 2001 the European Court of Human Rights, in a complaint brought by a prisoner, John Hirst, held that delays and infrequency in compiling parole reports and two year gaps between parole hearings violated a prisoner's right under Article 5 of the Convention to have their arrest or continued detention decided speedily by a court. This was the third occasion the Court had criticised the "tardiness" of the parole procedure. Prior to the ruling, the Prison Service was moving towards the implementation of a new Life Sentence Plan (LSP) which abandons automatic three-yearly F75 sentence plan reviews and moves towards the introduction of a system for producing reports "only at times of significant change or progress.". The only predicted report dates under the LSP would be Parole Board Reviews for open conditions or release. Logically, the LSP proposals may now have to be abandoned.

Daily Telegraph 25.7.01.

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