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Human rights and whole-life tariffs

In the case of R vIan McLoughlin and Lee Newell (2014), the Court of Appeal had to decide whether whole-life tariffs were legal. Ian Yule examines the arguments

Michael Adebolajo was sentenced to a whole-life tariff for the murder of Lee Rigby

This article is relevant for AQA AS Law 02; OCR AS G151 English Legal System and WJEC LA4 Option 2: Criminal Law and Justice Sentencing.

The importance of R v Ian McLoughlin and Lee Newell (2014) was demonstrated by the fact that the court comprised five judges instead of the usual three, and was presided over by Lord Thomas, the new Lord Chief Justice.

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