R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Pierson

E1841878 UNEXPLORED

R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Pierson is a leading UK public law case in which the House of Lords held that the Home Secretary could not retrospectively increase a mandatory life sentence tariff, affirming fundamental principles of legality and judicial sentencing discretion.

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