The Independent - London, February 8th, 1995
Benham v United Kingdom. European Commission of Human Rights. 29 November 1994.
The imprisonment of a poll tax defaulter, who was unemployed and lacked the means to pay, following an inadequate inquiry into his means and reasons for failing to pay, and the failure thereafter to award him compensation for wrongful detention, constituted infringements of his rights, under article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights, to liberty and security of person.
Moreover, the absence of legal aid to enable him to be represented at such a means inquiry, where he risked being deprived of his libert...
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