Source: All England Reporter
Publisher Citation: [2011] All ER (D) 311 (Mar)
Neutral Citation: [2011] EWHC 266 (Admin)
Court: Queen's Bench Division, Administrative Court (Leeds)
Judge:

Judge Kaye QC sitting as a judge of the High Court
Representation Mr Stanbury (instructed by Grayson Willis Bennett Solicitors, Sheffield) for the claimant.
  Simon Murray (instructed by the Treasury Solicitor) for the Secretary of State.
Judgment Dates: 21 January 2011

Catchwords

Prison - Prisoner - Transfer to open conditions - Prisoner liable to deportation - Claimant refugee seeking re-categorisation of prison status to open conditions - Re-categorisation being refused following notification that claimant's refugee status under consideration - Claimant seeking judicial review of decision - Whether decision irrational and unreasonable.

The Case

Prison Prisoner. The Administrative Court, in allowing the claimant's application for judicial review, held that the prison authorities' decision in refusing the claimant's application for reclassification from a category C to a category D prisoner had been unlawful.

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