Prison and Probation Ombudsmen for England Annual Report 2011-2012

The Prison and Probation Ombudsmen for England has presented his Annual Report 2011-2012, Cm 8429 (PDF which can be found here )  

Former prisoner challenges licence conditions – case judgement

Our attention has been drawn to a recent case in which deals with a released prisoners right to challenge conditions imposed upon him on his release. In this case  it was necessary to consider whether they were so onerous that they amounted to a deprivation of his liberty? Did they constitute an unnecessary and disproportionate [...]

State databases illegal and not providing value for money

There have been a number of reports in the Press regarding recently published research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation into the use of Government Databases. The document Database State reviews a number of Government databases and ranks them according to whether or not, in the opinion of the authors, they meet existing legislative safeguards. There is a very useful [...]