05 February 2016
R (on the applications of P and another) v Secretary of State for Justice and another [2016] EWHC 89 (Admin), [2016] All ER (D) 166 (Jan)
The Divisional Court allowed the claimants’ judicial review proceedings, seeking declarations that the statutory scheme for disclosure of convictions was inconsistent with Art 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The present statutory scheme could give rise to some very startling consequences and such results were properly to be described as “arbitrary”.
