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Damages for poll-tax prisoner

An applicant who had no legal representation and who was imprisoned after failing to pay the community charge, accepted €10,000 damages and €4,000 costs and expenses in a friendly settlement of his case alleging breach of the European Convention on Human Rights against the United Kingdom. Accordingly, the case was struck out of the list.

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