Practice areas
Courts
Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Chivers Solicitors acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 14 Jul 2017 |
[2017] EWCA Civ 1003 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
The special costs practice for judicial review of courts and tribunals applies to the Parole Board. Where it has neither acted improperly nor actively…
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13 |
| 15 Nov 2012 |
[2012] EWHC 3216 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A policy may take a foreign prisoner’s immigration status into account when deciding whether to release the prisoner on home detention curfew. The relevant…
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3 |
| 25 Oct 2012 |
[2012] EWCA Civ 1374 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Recall from a home-detention-curfew licence during the custodial term of a determinate sentence does not, without more, create a fresh deprivation of liberty…
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3 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 25 Mar 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 706 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Procedural fairness in a Category A security-categorisation review is assessed objectively by the court as a question of correctness, not by Wednesbury…
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| 14 Jul 2017 |
[2017] EWCA Civ 1003 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
The special costs practice for judicial review of courts and tribunals applies to the Parole Board. Where it has neither acted improperly nor actively…
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13 |
| 29 Jul 2016 |
[2016] EWHC 1957 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A prisoner’s denial of offending must not, by itself, prevent progression or release. It remains relevant to assessing risk and rehabilitation. The Secretary…
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| 2 Dec 2015 |
[2015] EWHC 3451 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
The Secretary of State owes prisoners serving indeterminate sentences for public protection a public law duty to provide the systems and resources needed to…
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1 |
| 11 Feb 2015 |
[2015] EWHC 136 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Detention under an imprisonment for public protection sentence remains compatible with Article 5(1)(a) if the domestic sentence remains lawful, its preventive…
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1 |
| 16 Dec 2014 |
[2014] EWCA Civ 1628 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For the purposes of article 8(2) of the European Convention on Human Rights, the required precision of published policy is contextual. Complex prison decisions…
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2 |
| 24 Nov 2014 |
[2014] EWHC 4763 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A Parole Board assessing transfer to open conditions must assess the prisoner’s current risk on the basis that the conviction is safe, despite any denial.…
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2 |
| 3 Nov 2014 |
[2014] EWHC 3586 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
The Secretary of State’s duty to provide indeterminate-sentence prisoners with a reasonable opportunity to demonstrate that they are no longer dangerous is a…
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2 |
| 20 Oct 2014 |
[2014] EWHC 3738 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
The Parole Board must apply the public protection test in Criminal Justice Act 2003, section 225C(3), when deciding whether continued detention is necessary. A…
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| 21 Oct 2013 |
[2013] EWCA Civ 1275 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Open justice is the starting point for an application for interim reporting restrictions. The applicant must establish, by clear and cogent evidence, that…
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1 |
| 3 Oct 2013 |
[2013] EWHC 3514 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Article 8 does not generally require a prison authority to create a policy specifically governing contact or sexual relationships between homosexual prisoners.…
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| 15 Nov 2012 |
[2012] EWHC 3216 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A policy may take a foreign prisoner’s immigration status into account when deciding whether to release the prisoner on home detention curfew. The relevant…
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3 |
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