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THE WHOLE-LIFE SENTENCE IN ENGLAND AND WALES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2015

Jonathan Bild
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THERE can be little doubt that there is disagreement between the Court of Appeal and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) over the whole-life sentence in England and Wales. Despite evolving jurisprudence on the issue of life-long detention emanating from Strasbourg, the Court of Appeal has readily upheld the English whole-life sentence in recent years. It has been doing so by adopting a very wide interpretation of the Secretary of State's power to order the compassionate release of a life sentence prisoner.

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The Cambridge Law Journal , Volume 74 , Issue 1 , March 2015 , pp. 1 - 4
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Copyright © Cambridge Law Journal and Contributors 2015 

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