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Dear Parole Board for England and Wales,

I would like all data relating to how you are going to correct the situation given the judgement in Wakenshaw, R (On the Application Of) v Secretary Of State For Justice [2018] EWHC 2089 (Admin) (07 August 2018) :

32."I therefore grant permission to the claimant limited to seeking a declaration as follows:

"That the period of appointment (three or four years, renewable for three or four years) of Parole Board members coupled with the power of the Secretary of State to remove a member if he is satisfied that he or she has failed without reasonable excuse to discharge the functions of his or her office for a continuous period of at least three months, or is unable to discharge the functions of the office, without recourse to any procedure or machinery to determine the merit of a decision to remove him or her on one or other of these grounds, means that the provisions for tenure of Parole Board membership fail the test of objective independence."

34.I turn to the application for interim relief. Even though I am satisfied that the claimant is arguably entitled to the declaration set out above it by no means follows that I should halt the current competition to select a new Chair of the Board. I have already pointed out that the claimed interim relief appears to go wider than the substantive relief which is sought. If a declaration in the terms set out above is made, then there will need to be further changes made to the terms of appointment of members. I think all that would be needed is to provide for a fully independent and impartial review to examine the merits of a removal. That amendment would have to be made available to all existing as well as future members."

I asked the MoJ but they say this is a FOIA request for you alone.

Yours faithfully,

Edward Williams

Nazreen Khan, Parole Board for England and Wales

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Nazreen Khan, Parole Board for England and Wales

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Dear Mr Edwards,

 

Please find attached the response to your recent Freedom of Information
request.

 

 

Kind regards

Nazreen Khan

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The Parole Board for England and Wales

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Dear Mr Williams,

 

Please find attached a response to your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
request of 1 October 2018.

 

Many thanks

Sarah Henderson

 

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