Indeterminate Notification: Revisiting the Sentence

摘要

The previous issue of this journal reported the case of R (on the application of F and Thompson) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2008] EWHC 3170 (see (2009) 73 JCL 191-5). In that case the Divisional Court held, inter alia, that it was disproportionate for a juvenile convicted of a sexual offence to be required to notify his details to the police indefinitely. This case concerns the same offender, F, and it involves the novel question of whether a finding that an offender's Article 8 Convention rights have been breached should require the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) to allow an appeal against sentence.