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O’Brien v Chief Constable of South Wales

Author / Contributor: Jeremy Johnson QC
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O’Brien v Chief Constable of South Wales
   
Issue: Whether, in a claim for misfeasance and malicious prosecution, the Judge had been right to give permission to rely on similar fact evidence relating to the way in which police officers had been alleged to have behaved in other criminal investigations
   
Court: Court of Appeal
   
Reference:   A2/2002/2623
   
Neutral Citation:   [2003] EWCA Civ 1085
   
Judge(s): Brooke, Mantell and May LJJ
   
Date: 23 June 2003