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2004

Cases Reported


R v Rosario Rosso 1
Issue: Whether police officers required a warrant under s135 Mental Health Act 1983 to enter a room in a hotel to take and convey to hospital a person who was the subject of an application for admission under s2 of the 1983 Act
 
Lewis v UK 5
Issue: Whether the covert recording of conversations inside a person’s home amounted to a violation of Art 8 of the Convention
 
DPP v Meaden 8
Issue: Whether officers had been acting in the execution of their duty when they prevented a person from walking around his own house whilst a search warrant was being executed
 
Hutt v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis 13
Issue: Whether police detention following a refusal of bail was lawful, when the original arrest had been unlawful
 
O’Brien v Chief Constable of South Wales 21
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
 
R (South Wales Police Authority) v Medical Referee (Dr David Anton) 37
Issue: Whether a medical referee, in considering an officer’s entitlement to a pension as a result of an injury that was caused party by work-related factors and partly by non work-related factors, was obliged to apportion the officer’s loss of earning capacity between the two causes, and whether loss of earning capacity refers to present or future capacity
 
Fay v Chief Constable of Bedfordshire 49
Issue: Whether a claim for the return of a large sum of money that had been seized by the police should have been struck out, the claimant having taken no step in the litigation for 8 years
 
Coulter v Chief Constable of Dorset 56
Issue: Whether a chief officer of police held the benefit of a judgment granted in favour of her predecessor
 
Cumming and others v Chief Constable of Northumbria 61
Issue: Whether the arrests of 6 people of good character had been lawful when they (and only they) had the opportunity to commit the offence but where only a maximum of one or two people were likely to have actually been involved in the offence
 
R (Kent Pharmaceuticals Ltd) v Director of the Serious Fraud Office 72
Issue: Whether the disclosure by the SFO to a Government department of material seized during a search was unlawful
 
Hewitson v Chief Constable of Dorset 82
Issue: Whether a search of property was lawful when the person concerned had been arrested for the purpose of extradition proceedings and the arrest had been carried out some distance from the premises and 2 hours before the search
 
McHarg v Chief Constable of the Thames Valley Police 87
Issue: Whether the claimant had a real prospect of success on a malicious prosecution claim where the CPS, having been provided with all relevant material, advised that the claimant should be charged
 
X v Chief Constable of West Midlands Police 96
Issue: Whether the disclosure to a potential employer of information relating to X’s acquittal of offences of indecency was unlawful
 
R (Chief Constable of Avon and Somerset) v Police Appeals Tribunal 116
Issue: Whether the Home Office Guidance on the test to be applied by a Police Appeals Tribunal was wrong in law
 
R (Laporte) v Chief Constable of Gloucestershire (Admin Ct) 123
Issue: Whether officers had been entitled to stop coaches of protestors attending a demonstration; whether they had been entitled forcibly to return the coaches under escort to London
 
Lennon v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis 134
Issue: Whether the Commissioner was responsible for pure economic loss sustained by an officer as a result of advice given by a civilian member of staff
 
Attorney General v Hartwell 141
Issue: Whether there was vicarious liability for a police officer’s conduct in shooting a person; whether a duty of care was owed to the victim for allowing the officer to have access to a gun
 
R (Green) v Police Complaints Authority 148
Issue: Whether a person who makes a complaint against police is entitled to disclosure of the statements obtained in a subsequent investigation
 
Gough and another v Chief Constable of West Midlands Police 164
Issue: Whether the police could retain property under s22 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 when they suspected, but could not prove, that it was stolen
 
Larrier v Chief Constable of Merseyside Police 174
Issue: Whether, in a claim for false imprisonment and malicious prosecution where the credibility of the officers was in issue, a judge had been entitled to dismiss the claim without asking the jury to resolve a central factual issue
 
Paul v Chief Constable of Humberside 179
Issue: Whether the Judge had been entitled not to leave questions to the jury in a false imprisonment and malicious prosecution claim
 
R (Wilkinson) v Police Complaints Authority and Chief Constable of Merseyside Police 189
Issue: Whether the Police Complaints Authority was entitled to withdraw its decision to grant a dispensation from the requirement to investigate a complaint
 
Cleveland Police Authority v Medical Referee 192
Issue: Whether a psychiatric injury was received in the execution of duty, it having been received as a result of adverse press coverage of an officer’s failure to attend as a witness at a criminal trial
 
Amis v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, Police Complaints Authority and CPS 196
Issue: Whether a claim for breach of Art 6(1) on the basis of delay in investigating a complaint against police officers should be struck out or dismissed by summary judgment
 
Donachie v Chief Constable of the Greater Manchester Police 204
Issue: Whether it was reasonably foreseeable that issuing officers with faulty batteries for a tracking device could lead to psychiatric damage when repeated attempts had to be made covertly to fit the device
 
X and Y v Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police 214
Issue: The appropriate award of damages to a police informer when his identity had been wrongly disclosed
 
Kennedy v Chief Constable of Merseyside Police 226
Issue: Whether s6 of the Constables Protection Act 1750 is incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights, and whether a restriction on a person’s freedom of movement around a house whilst a search warrant was being executed amounted to a false imprisonment
 
R (Mullen) v Home Secretary 234
Issue: Whether an award should be made under the scheme for compensating miscarriages of justice where there had been a technical irregularity in the criminal proceedings.
 
Fleming v Chief Constable of the Sussex Police Force 251
Issue: Whether a Judge had been entitled, in deciding costs, to have regard to the effect that an order would have on the award of damages, and whether he erred in awarding the claimant all of the costs of the action when the claimant had failed on 2 causes of action
 
Heath v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis 259
Issue: Whether the Commissioner could rely on absolute immunity in respect of a claim for sex discrimination arising out of the conduct of a police disciplinary hearing
 
R (Marper and another) v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire and another 282
Issue: Whether s81 Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 (which provides that fingerprints and DNA samples may be retained after an acquittal) is incompatible with Arts 8 and 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights
 
O’Brien and others v Independent Assessor 298
Issue: Whether the Independent Assessor had applied the correct principles when calculating compensation due under s133 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988
 
Wood v UK 326
Issue: Whether the bugging of a police cell amounted to a breach of Art 8 ECHR and whether an award of damages was appropriate
 
R (Anderson) v HM Coroner for Inner North Greater London 331
Issue: Whether an inquest verdict of unlawful killing should be quashed in circumstances where the deceased had been removed by police officers under s136 of the Mental Health Act 1983 and restrained for 20 minutes
 
R (Coghlan and others) v Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police 344
Issue: Whether a decision to lift an officer’s suspension, with the result that he was able to resign and avoid disciplinary proceedings, was unlawful
 
R (Laporte) v Chief Constable of Gloucestershire (CA) 359
Issue: Whether officers had been entitled to stop coaches of protestors attending a demonstration at RAF Fairford, and whether they had been entitled forcibly to return the coaches under escort to London
 
Al Fayed and others v Commissioner of Police and others 370
Issue: Whether the arrest of the Claimants had been lawful
 
R (Gillan) v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis and another 389
Issue: Whether the use of stop and search powers under ss43-47 of the Terrorism Act 2000 was lawful
 
Richardson v Howie 400
Issue: Whether a separate award of aggravated damages should be made in a claim for assault in addition to the award of general damages
 
Settelen v Chakra Productions Ltd and Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis 405
Issue: Whether the Commissioner was entitled to retain a copy of a tape that had been seized during one investigation for the purposes of another investigation
 
Bonner v DPP 412
Issue: Whether officers conducting a search were acting within the execution of their duty if they had failed to comply with s2 of PACE and Code A, the failure being due to a fear for their personal safety
 
Holloway v DPP 416
Issue: Whether a person can be guilty of insulting behaviour contrary to s5 of the Public Order Act 1986 when their conduct has not been seen by anybody
 
Chief Constable of Merseyside Police v Reynolds 420
Issue: At what time an order for the detention of cash for 90 days expired, and whether the failure to give 7 days notice of the application to renew the application or to obtain leave for short service rendered the subsequent proceedings a nullity
 
R (Merseyside Police Authority) v Gidlow 423
Issue: Whether a psychiatric injury caused by a grievance procedure was received “in the execution of duty” for the purposes of the Police Pensions Regulations 1987
 
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