Law in Focus: 'Vinter v UK - The Right to Hope and the Whole Life Tariff' - Nicola Padfield

In the eighth of the Faculty's series of videos entitled 'Law in Focus', Mrs Nicola Padfield considers the case of Vinter v UK which was recently decided by the European Court of Human Rights, and has raised a good deal of controversy regarding the right of the United Kingdom to sentence a prisoner to a life sentence (the Whole Life Tariff) without the chance of review. Mrs Padfield discusses the judgement of the European Court, and the corresponding reaction from members of the UK Government and others.

This item also features on the Cambridge University Research Pages.

Nicola Padfield is Reader in Criminal and Penal Justice at the University of Cambridge. She is a barrister by training, and also a Bencher of the Middle Temple. Mrs Padfield has also been elected as the next Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, and will take office on 1 October 2013. For more information about Mrs Padfield, please refer to her staff profile.

Law in Focus is a series of short videos featuring academics from the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, addressing legal issues in current affairs and the news. These issues are examples of the many which challenge researchers and students studying at the Faculty.  Law in Focus is available on YouTube, or in iTunes U.

Other collections of video and audio recordings from the Faculty of Law are available at Lectures at Law.