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Prison rule unlawful

01 May 1993

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The Court of Appeal declared invalid a prison rule which allowed officers to read prisoners' correspondence with their lawyers about pending or contemplated legal proceedings. After adverse rulings from the European Court on Human Rights in the 1980s, prison rules were changed to preserve confidentiality between prisoner and lawyer in relation to "proceedings to which the prisoner is a party"; but did not extend the protection to correspondence on future proceedings, which the Court said should also be confidential.

R v Secretary of State for the Home Department ex parte Leech, Independent 20.5.93.

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