Prisoner fails in challenge over prison's refusal to relase information

A prisoner has failed in a High Court challenge over the alleged use by prison authorities of data protection to unlawfully refuse to tell his lawyer why his client had been held in a padded cell for five days.

Ms Justice Niamh Hyland did not accept Brandon Crosbie's constitutional right to information in order to access justice had been affected by a refusal of Mountjoy Prison to give out information over the phone to his solicitor Tony Collier.