Evans v Governor of Brockhill Prison

Source:	All England Reporter
Publisher Citation:	[1998] All ER (D) 286
Court:	Court of Appeal, Civil Division
Judge:	Lord Woolf MR, Roch and Judge LJJ
Representation	Ben Emmerson and Peter Weatherby (instructed by Graysons) for the plaintiff.
	Philip Sales and Michael Fordham (instructed by the Treasury Solicitor) for the governor.
Judgment Dates:	19 June 1998

Catchwords

False imprisonment - Calculation of prisoner's release date - Prison governor calculating release date by method laid down by courts - Prisoner obtaining judicial review of governor's decision as to her release date - Divisional Court overruling previous authorities as to method of calculation - Whether prisoner entitled to damages for false imprisonment.

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