• Source: R (Daly) v Secretary of State for the Home Department

R (Daly) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2001] UKHL 26 is a UK constitutional law case of the House of Lords case on the rights of a prisoner when his cell is searched by prison officers.




Facts


The case concerned whether cell searches contravened a prisoner's right to private correspondence with his solicitor. The case is of importance for its use of a proportionality test in a judicial review case, a method copied from the jurisprudence of the European Convention on Human Rights.




Judgment


The prisoner's case was accepted.




References


Helen Fenwick and Gavin Phillipson, "Text, cases & materials on public law & human rights" (2 rev ed), Routledge Cavendish, 2003, ISBN 1-85941-655-1




External links


House of Lords judgment

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Harry, Adipati Sussex
• R (Daly) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
• Huang v Home Secretary
• Malone v United Kingdom
• Tom Bingham, Baron Bingham of Cornhill
• United Kingdom constitutional law
• United Kingdom administrative law
• Judicial review in English law
• Article 12 of the Constitution of Singapore
• John Kerry
• Ryan Zinke