Parole board hearings : law and practice
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Parole board hearings : law and practice
Legal Action Group, 2010
2nd ed
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Parole Board Hearings: law and practice continues to be the only book dedicated to covering the decision-making powers and procedures of the Parole Board It provides practical and detailed guidance on representation, challenging decisions, risk assessments, hearing procedure, life sentence review, licences, recall and remedies. In the four years since the publication of the first edition there have been significant developments in the parole review process. This second edition has been fully updated to include:the Parole Board (Amendment) Rules 2009 with commentary on the implications of discretionary hearings for IPP prisoners; analysis of the House of Lord decision in James on Article 5 and delays; the new procedures for victims' attendance at parole hearings and coverage of the proposed changes to the public funding of parole cases. Parole Board Hearings: law and practice is essential reading for lawyers, advisers, prisoners and their families, and all those working within prisons and for the prison and probation services and related bodies.
Table of Contents
The Parole Board / Other Agencies involved in the parole process / Public funding / Assessment of risk/ Determinate Sentences: an overview / The release of determinate sentence prisoners / Indeterminate sentences: an overview / Serving the life sentence/ The test for release / Reviews of life sentences by the Parole Board / Oral hearing procedure / Licences / Recall to prison / Remedies / Appendices
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