Five of the UK's most dangerous criminals are to appeal against their life sentences for murder and rape.
Their cases will be heard by five judges at the Court of Appeal in London, which includes the Lord Chief Justice and Lord Justice Leveson.
The men include Kiaran Stapleton, found guilty of murdering Indian student Anuj Bidve in Salford last year.
Their appeals are being seen by some legal observers as a test of the whole-of-life term.
Four of the five men were given whole life tariffs, meaning they would spend the rest of their lives in prison.
These five appeals come ahead of separate cases also being heard at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
Judges there had ruled in January that the whole life term handed down to convicted murderer Jeremy Bamber and two other men did not amount to inhuman and degrading punishment.
- Michael Roberts: The "Bermondsey rapist" whose attacks were between 1988 and 1990 and whose victims included an 83-year-old woman
- Kiaran Stapleton: Found guilty of murdering Indian student Anuj Bidve in Salford on 26 December 2011
- Danilo Restivo: Murdered his Bournemouth neighbour Heather Barnett in 2002 and Elisa Claps, 16, in Potenza, Italy, in 1993
- David Oakes: Shot ex-partner Christine Chambers, 38, and two-year-old daughter Shania at their home in Braintree, Essex, in June 2011
- A fifth man is also appealing
Condemning people to die in jail was not "grossly disproportionate" and in each case London's High Court had "decided that an all-life tariff was required, relatively recently and following a fair and detailed consideration", the judges ruled.
But that ruling will now be tested by the court's Grand Chamber in Strasbourg after a panel of five judges granted the appeal by killer Douglas Vinter, who stabbed his wife in February 2008.
His appeal means the cases of Bamber, who killed his parents, sister and her two young children in August 1985, and Peter Moore, who killed four gay men for his sexual gratification in 1995, will also be considered by the Grand Chamber judges.
BBC legal affairs correspondent Clive Coleman said the fact that Wednesday's appeals had been grouped together before such a powerful five-judge court in London, was being seen as an opportunity to clarify the sentencing of the most serious criminals before Strasbourg examined the issue.
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