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Lawyers in the news: Aston Luff, Hodge Jones & Allen
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Who? Aston Luff, solicitor, Hodge Jones & Allen, London.
Why is he in the news? The firm represented the family of Tommy Nicol, an IPP [Imprisonment for Public Protection] prisoner at HMP The Mount, who died in 2015. The family began a landmark claim alleging that the operation of the IPP sentence caused Tommy’s death, and the administration of it constituted a breach of his right to life under the Human Rights Act. The Ministry of Justice has settled the claim.
Thoughts on the case: ‘Despite the obvious injustices they cause, existing IPP sentences have proven difficult to challenge legally since the abolition of the regime in 2012. In Tommy’s case, he was stuck in his IPP sentence, not for lack of effort or unwillingness to fulfil the requirements for his release. After repeated attempts to access the required rehabilitative courses, he conducted a hunger strike as a last resort. However, symptomatic of the IPP bureaucratic nightmare, this resulted in disciplinary hearings