This case and related cases raise significant human rights issues with regard to the segregation of juvenile prisoners in circumstances where each applicant claims to have been confined to their cell, without respite for a period of weeks, in conditions they allege amount to solitary confinement. These legal submissions apply to all four cases. The Commission, which has been given liberty to appear as amicus curiae in all four cases, has undertaken not to entrench on factual matters but will seek to set out the general principles applicable to the practice of solitary confinement.
The court has ordered a reporting restriction in relation to these proceedings and none of the applicants may be identified.