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On 29 January 2010 the High Court approved the financial settlement of £100,000. Carmen Quiroga and her 4 young children were detained unlawfully at Oakington Detention Centre for 42 days in 2004. Carmen and her children suffered appalling conditions of detention and sustained psychiatric injuries. On 1 October 2009, the Home Office admitted that they had falsely imprisoned the family. Read more about Home Office Admits Unlawful Detention Of Family
The second edition of Hamish Arnott and Simon Creighton's book 'Parole Board Hearings: Law & Practice' has been published by Legal Action Group. Copies of the book can be purchased direct from LAG. Read more about New Parole Book
In R (on the application of Keith Lewis) v. HM Coroner for Mid and North Division of the County of Shropshire, the Court of Appeal has found that in order to satisfy the requirements of Article 2 ECHR, inquests must identify system failings that might have prevented deaths in custody even where it can never be known whether the defects in the system would have prevented the death. Read more about Court of Appeal delivers judgment in test case concerning remit of post-Middleton inquest verdicts