R (on the application of COMMISSIONER OF POLICE OF THE METROPOLIS) (Claimant) v CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT (Defendant) & (1) MG (2) CROWN PROSECUTION SERVICE (Interested Parties) (2013)

Despite a substantial delay in applying for judicial review, it was in the public interest to quash a court’s decision purporting to lift a sexual offender’s notification requirements. The court lacked power to make that order, and the grant of relief upheld the rule of law and ensured that all applications to life notification requirements […]

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ALAN WOODCOCK v NEW ZEALAND (2003)

There was nothing in the applicants circumstances making it unfair or oppressive now to return him to New Zealand to stand trial for serious sexual offences involving abuse of his position of trust as a priest and a teacher.

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