Sentences with phrase «challenge by a prisoner»

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A key component of the Senate GOP's lawsuit against the prisoner counting change included in the 2010 - 2011 budget is a challenge to the way that switch was made — through a budget extender bill sent to the Legislature by then - Gov.

The four people challenging the prisoner book ban were vastly outnumbered by the MoJ's legal team, which had solicitors, barristers and plenty of civil servants to back them up.

Half a dozen senators and several private citizens of filed a lawsuit challenging the law pushed through by the Senate Democrats last year that changed the way prisoners are counted for the purposes of redistricting, Senate sources confirm.

The so - called «human challenge model» has a long and checkered past that began with 18th century experiments by smallpox vaccine developer Edward Jenner and later fell under intense scrutiny when they were conducted by Nazi doctors, military researchers, and academic scientists working with prisoners.

The ruling marks the first time in U.S. history that an animal has been covered by a writ of habeas corpus, which typically allows human prisoners to challenge their detention.

The group contended that the chimps should be covered by a writ of habeas corpus, which typically allows human prisoners to challenge their detention.

► «New York Supreme Court Justice Barbara Jaffe ruled that two research chimps at Stony Brook University are not covered by a writ of habeas corpus, which typically allows human prisoners to challenge their detention,» David Grimm wrote on Thursday at ScienceInsider.

The decision means that the animals aren't covered by a writ of habeas corpus, which typically allows human prisoners to challenge their detention.

Now he challenged American rusticity by traveling in a glass - windowed sedan chair from France, borne by four husky prisoners from the nearby Walnut Street jail.

Prison Architect, developed by Introversion Software, challenges players to build and manage a maximum security prison, from laying out cell blocks and inmate facilities, to managing staff pay and prisoner morale.Prison designs will include basic necessities like cells, canteens, guard rooms, and infrastructure, but...

Prison Architect: Mobile, developed by Introversion Software and Tag Games, challenges players to construct and manage a maximum security prison, from laying out cell blocks and inmate facilities to managing staff pay and prisoner morale.

The idea of crowdfunding for access to justice also gathered momentum in October, with the Howard League for Penal Reform and Prisoners Advice Service crowdfunding for their challenge to the legal aid cuts for prison law and the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants also using CrowdJustice to raise funds to challenge the government's decision to increase asylum and immigration tribunal fees by up to 500 %.

R (Bruton) v Secretary of State for Justice [2017] EWHC 1967 (Admin) The first procedural fairness challenge to a decision refusing an indeterminate sentence prisoner early release on compassionate family grounds (instructed by the Government Legal Department)

Separately from LASPO, there have been savage cuts to legal aid for prisoners, presently subject to a challenge by the Howard League and Prisoners Adviceprisoners, presently subject to a challenge by the Howard League and Prisoners AdvicePrisoners Advice Service.

A few months ago, I blogged about a very interesting paper by Lisa Kerr about challenging the prison authorities» assertions of expertise in order to secure prisoners» rights.

Recent examples of our work in discrimination law include suing an immigration detention centre for racial discrimination, challenging the police for stopping and searching people based on race, challenging discriminatory bail conditions applied to people wrongly arrested during the London riots, failing to protect a homosexual prisoner from assault by homophobic inmates and persuading a school to apologise and train relevant staff after it excluded a pupil with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

A public consultation on a prisoner's right to vote has been announced by the government following the European Court of Human Rights» ruling in Hirst v United Kingdom in which a life sentence prisoner successfully challenged the UK's current arrangements.