Opiate Dependant Prisoners Litigation - class action Group Litigation Order 70

Ref No: 70




Name of Group Litigation Order: Opiate Dependant Prisoners Litigation ( No.2)



Date of Order: 21/07/09



Judge: The Senior Master



Court: Royal Courts of Justice



Managing Court: Queen's Bench Division



Lead Solicitors:



Lead Solicitors-Messrs Bhatt Murphy of 27 Hoxton Square, London N1 6NN (Claimants' Solicitors)



Defining Issues:



Defining Issues:-Did the system operate in the relevant prisons or any of them at any material time (and if so which and when) of (i) stopping the community prescribed opiate maintenance prescriptions of opiate dependant prisioners and (ii) offering them only a detoxification regime? etc.