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Prisoner’s lawyers argue Parole Board’s blanket ban breaches right to a fair trial
Charles Bronson, one of the UK’s most notorious prisoners, has won the first round in a battle to overturn a blanket ban on Parole Board hearings being held in public.
At a remote video hearing in the high court, lawyers for the 67-year-old argued that Ministry of Justice regulations preventing people hearing arguments about whether inmates should be released were illegal because they breached his right to a fair trial and started from the assumption that hearings should be in private. Continue reading...