“…Mr Watson referred us to paragraph 5 of the speech of Lord Hope in R (James) v Secretary of State for Justice [2009] UKHL 22; [2010] 1 AC 553 (the precursor to the application to the ECtHR in James v United Kingdom). Referring to the judgment of Simon Brown LJ (as he then was) in R v Oldham Justices …”
“… licence. The claim failed in the House of Lords but succeeded in the European Court of Human Rights: see R (James and others) v Secretary of State for Justice [2010] 1 AC 553 and James, Lee and Wells v United Kingdom [2012] ECHR 57877/09.…”