Category: Parole Board

Events

Next APL Event: Justice delayed is justice denied: how to bring damages claims for delays in Parole cases

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When: Tue 8 Apr 2025 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM Where: No.5 Chambers, London. WC2R 0EX Book your space at: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/associationofprisonlawyers/1563405 As the latest Parole Board annual report acknowledges, the number of compensation claims is on the rise. The report suggests that “this may be a result of additional pressures and increased throughput of cases the Parole Board has seen.” It is also clear […]

Legal Aid

APL and UNGRIPP seek better access to justice for IPPs

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Earlier this week the Justice Secretary announced he is considering reducing the qualifying period after which IPP licences can be terminated from ten years to five years. Yet, information obtained under the Freedom of Information Act shows that of 141 applications for termination considered between March and May this year, only 22 were represented – […]

Legal Aid

Government Response on Prison Law Fees in CLAR

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The government response to Lord Bellamy’s Legal Aid review on prison law is bitterly disappointing.  The government has dismissed the calls for an uplift in prison law fees at this stage by both Lord Bellamy’s advice and the majority of respondents to the consultation. The only reason provided is the government’s desire to “focus available […]

Events

Association of Prison Lawyers (APL): Annual Conference 2022

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Achieving excellence for people in prison in a changing and impoverished climate 21 October 2022 Doughty Street Chambers, London In recent years, prison lawyers have had to grapple with a host of changes that have made representing clients in prison complicated and challenging. The Association of Prison Lawyers brings together speakers from Probation, the Parole […]

Parole Board

Parole Board Diversity Crisis

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The body responsible for deciding whether prisoners can be released into the community has no black members, it has been revealed. Caroline Corby, the chair of the Parole Board, has said she fears unconscious bias could be behind the absence of black members and the low number of minority ethnic people. Source: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/nov/09/parole-board-diversity-crisis-black-members

Parole Board

Appointment of 12 psychiatrist and 13 judicial Parole Board members

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Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/appointment-of-12-psychiatrist-and-13-judicial-parole-board-members The Secretary of State has announced the appointment of 25 Parole Board members. Ministers have approved the appointment of 25 (12 psychiatrist and 13 judicial) Parole Board members who will commence their tenures on 1 November 2018 for a period of 3 years. All Parole Board member appointments are subject to security clearance. […]

Parole Board

New Chair of the Parole Board announced

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The Secretary of State has announced today that Caroline Corby has been confirmed as the Chair of the Parole Board. Mrs Corby worked in the city for 13 years specialising in private equity where she also served on a number of private sector boards across a range of industries. In 2007 she joined the Board […]