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Report of the Committee on Serious Violent and Sexual Offenders

Footnotes to Annex 8

1 Parl. Debs., H C, 16/July 1991

2 ECHR. Series A. No. 114

3 Cf, Tyrer v United Kingdom, ECtHR, Series A, No. 26.

4 Cf. Wynne v United Kingdom, ECtHR, Series A, No. 294-A, T. v United Kingdom, V. v United Kingdom, RJD 1999-

5 'Everyone' in this context includes persons convicted of offences and upon whom a custodial sentence has been imposed. Such persons are not deprived of the rights conferred by article 5(1): Weeks v United Kingdom, above.

6 Above.

7 Weeks v United Kingdom, above; Thynne, Wilson and Gunnell v United Kingdom, (1990) 13 EHRR 666

8 Weeks, judgment, at para. 46.

9 Ibid., para 58. See also, Van Droogenbroeck v Belgium Series A, No. 50, Thynne, Wilson and Gunnell v United Kingdom, above.

10 Weeks; Thynne, Wison and Gunnell

11 Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Act 1993, Parole Board (Scotland) Rules 1993 (S.I. 1993/2225).

12 Weeks v United Kingdom, above, para. 62.

13 Ibid.

14 Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Act 1993, Schedule 2.

15 Starrs & Chalmers v Ruxton, 2000 JC 208; 2000 SLT 42

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