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R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Venables and Thompson [1997] UKHL 25 is a UK constitutional law case, concerning the exercise of independent judgement in judicial review. Facts
So in R v Home Secretary ex parte Venables and Thompson the House of Lords held that the Home Secretary Michael Howard unlawfully took into account the irrelevant consideration of a petition organised by The Sun newspaper to not allow two men release from prison. Instead he should have taken into account the prisoners' progress during detention.
The adoption of planning policy and its application to particular facts is quite different from the judicial function. It is for elected Members of Parliament and ministers to decide what are the objectives of planning policy, objectives which may be of national, environmental, social or political significance and for these objectives to be set out in legislation, primary and secondary, in ...
R (Fire Brigades Union) v Home Secretary; R (HS2 Action Alliance Ltd) v Secretary of State for Transport; R (Jackson) v Attorney General; R (National Federation of Self-Employed and Small Businesses Ltd) v Inland Revenue Commissioners; R (Reilly) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions; R (UNISON) v Lord Chancellor; R (Venables and Thompson ...
The question of sufficient interest had to be resolved in relation to what was known by the court of the matter under review, and on the evidence the tax scheme was a lawful exercise of the IRC's discretion. Lord Fraser stressed the sufficient interest test was a logically prior question that had to be answered before any question of merits arose.
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The Parole Board said 41-year-old Venables still posed a danger to children and could go on to offend again. James Bulger’s parents ‘relieved’ killer Jon Venables refused prison release Skip ...