The High Court assessed damages for three Claimants at £2,500, £11,950 and £7,000. Police officers’ denying the allegations against them during disciplinary investigations and a criminal trial could not sound in aggravated damages; No damages for being cross-examined robustly by the officers’ counsel in criminal proceedings. […]
It is not an essential condition of a lawful arrest that a constable should verbally formulate a charge. What is required is that the arrested person be told the act for which they are being arrested. […]
It is a legitimate aim for police forces “to achieve efficiency by reducing officer numbers with certainty”. Police Forces had no other means of achieving certainty in their staff reductions other than by the use of A19, due to the limited ways in which officers can be dismissed. This finding demonstrates that the crucial question of whether […]
In the recent decision in Zenati v (1) Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis (2) Crown Prosecution Service [2015] EWCA Civ 80; [2015] QB 758, the Court of Appeal held, for the first time, that the police may be liable to a suspect remanded in custody for a breach of Article 5 where they fail […]
When ought an officer be treated as being disabled for the purposes of making adjustments under the Equality Act 2010? The relevance of restricted duties, substantive adverse affect, whether the condition is long term and the impact of adjustments and treatments. […]