Comment
A good day in court for the Parole Board
Last week, an important High Court judgment was handed down.
This special edition marks 50 years of the Parole System for England and Wales.
Publication
News
Comment on the forced resignation of Nick Hardwick
Our Director, Richard Garside, spoke on last night's BBC Newsnight on the dismissal of Nick Hardwick as Chair of the Parole Board.
Richard told the programme:
It’s really important as we look forward that the independence of the Parole Board from political interference is absolutely guaranteed.
It’s really striking in his resignation letter that Nick Hardwick raises the question, effectively, of
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Comment
The rule of law and the meaning of leadership
How should senior politicians and police officers respond to the release of a 78 year old man who is controversially up for release after spending 48 years in prison on a life sentence?
Speech
Who should we release: a matter of public confidence?
For this evening I thought I would focus on the public’s confidence in the reasonableness of Parole Board decisions, at a time when that confidence has been damaged by the Chief Inspection of Probation enquiries into the case of Hanson and White and of Rice.