| Right
| Examples of leading cases
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| Right to life | R v Secretary of State for the Home Department Ex parte Bugdaycay [1987] AC 514
|
| Liberty of the person | Bowditch v Balchin (1850) 5 Exch 378; R. v Thames Magistrate Ex parte Brindle [1975] 1 WLR 1400
|
| Justice in public | Scott v Scott [1913] AC 417
|
| Prohibition on the retrospective imposition of criminal penalty
| Pierson v Secretary of State for the Home Department [1998] AC 539
|
| Right to a fair hearing | R (on the application of McCann) v Manchester Crown Court [2002] UKHL 39
|
| Access to legal advice and to communicate confidentially with a legal adviser
| R v Secretary of State for the Home Department Ex parte Daly [2001] UKHL 26
|
| Freedom of expression | Pierson v Secretary of State for the Home Department [1998] AC 539; R v Secretary of State for the Home Department Ex parte Simms [2000] 2 AC 115; Derbyshire County Council v Times Newspapers Ltd [1993] AC 534
|
| Limitations on searches of premises and seizure of documents
| Marcel v Commissioner of Police [1992] Ch 225
|
| Prohibition of the use of evidence obtained by torture
| A v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2005] UKHL 71
|
| Right of a British citizen to live in and return to the part of the Queen's territory of which he is a citizen
| R v Secretary of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Ex parte Bancoult [2001] QB 1067
|
| Prohibition of deprivation of rights without compensation
| Hall v Shoreham-by-Sea UDC [1964] 1 WLR 240
|
| Privilege against self-incrimination | W v P [2006] EWHC 1226 (Ch)
|
| A duty on the State to provide subsistence to asylum-seekers
| R v Secretary of State for Social Security Ex parte Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants [1997] 1 WLR 275
|
| Freedom of movement within the United Kingdom
| R v Secretary of State for the Home Department Ex parte McQuillan [1995] 4 All ER 400
|
Source: adapted from H. Woolf, J. Jowell and A. Le
Sueur, de Smith's Judicial Review (London: Sweet &
Maxwell, 2007), chapter 5.
AC = Appeal Cases published by the Incorporated Council
of Law Reporting (ICLR)
