R (EM) v SSWP [2009] EWHC 454 (Admin)

Welfare benefits and transferred prisoners The Regulations which deprive of welfare benefits transferred prisoners (s47/49 and s45A patients until they would be entitled to release if in prison) are lawful; this is because there is enough of a relevant difference between them and civil/s37 patients to justify different treatment (i.e. they have been sentenced to a term of imprisonment to which they remain subject); in general, this applies all determinate and indeterminate sentence prisoners, including post-tariff lifers, technical lifers being the only exception because they had not been considered when the Regulations were drawn up and there is not enough of a relevant difference present.

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  • Welfare benefits cases🔍

Date: 13/3/09🔍

Court: High Court (Administrative Court)🔍

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  • EM🔍
  • Secretary of State for Work and Pensions🔍

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Published: 13/3/09 12:23

Cached: 2024-03-29 11:43:39