Ripper claims 'human rights breach'

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The 61-year-old will be represented by female lawyer Saimo Chahal, who will argue the Home Office disregarded his human rights because they failed to fix a tariff for his sentence.

Sutcliffe was jailed in 1981 after murdering 13 women and attempting to kill seven more across Yorkshire and in Manchester.

He was sentenced to 20 life sentences and was told by the judge that he would serve a minimum of 30 years.

But Ms Chahal, who specialises in civil liberties and social welfare as a partner at London-based Bindmans & Partners, believes this tariff was never formalised.

Sutcliffe began his sentence in prison but three years later was diagnosed with schizophrenia and was transferred to Broadmoor Hospital. Ms Chahal aims to get Sutcliffe back into the prison system and has requested a reassessment of his psychiatric condition.

A profile of Ms Chahal on the firm's website confirmed that she acts for Sutcliffe and added: "The Secretary of State is in breach of Article Five of the ECHR (European Court of Human Rights) in failing to set a tariff."

Ms Chahal was named Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year in a 2006 poll for "repeatedly pushing the boundaries of the law on behalf of those with mental illness".

According to a report on legal website the Black Lawyers Directory, Sutcliffe's case was referred to Ms Chahal by another solicitor because she "takes on difficult cases".

The report said: "For Saimo this case raises the issue of how we treat mentally ill people who have committed heinous crimes and she is concerned that there is a huge amount of information in the public domain about this case that is simply untrue."