R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, Ex p Bentley

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Type: Case

Citation: [1994] QB 349, DC

Summary: Death sentence carried out — Home Secretary subsequently refusing free pardon and failing to consider conditional pardon — Decisions taken under royal prerogative susceptible to judicial review if their nature and subject matter were amenable to the judicial process and court not required to review questions of policy — Home Secretary had not given sufficient consideration to possibility of granting a form of pardon suitable to circumstances of case and should reconsider matter

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Court: DC

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Date 1994