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Civil actions

  • £14,000 damages for police discrimination

  • A higher test of necessity for arrest?

  • An assault on Hill? Police liability in negligence positively narrowed

  • Arrest for breach of the peace

  • Arrest for lawful acts

  • Avoid frame-by-frame analysis of fast moving events and discussion of evidence in front of officers

  • Courts reluctant to strike-out negligence actions against the police

  • If an Englishman’s home is his castle, his clothes are his suit of armour

  • Inadequate investigation into complaint of rape a breach of article 3, £16,500 damages

  • Limitation and the threshold for article 3/8 investigative claims

  • Mark Ley Morgan successful in Court of Appeal

  • Necessity of arrest for imposing bail conditions and conducting a s18 search

  • No duty of care owed by employer to employees in the conduct of civil litigation

  • No interest on general damages in police actions

  • No necessity to arrest where person voluntarily attended police station

  • Nominal damages only for technically unlawful arrest and detention

  • Part 20 claims against police officers: unusual but not unprecedented

  • Police and NHS not liable to victim’s children in negligence or breach of human rights

  • Police duty of care to witnesses

  • Police liability for damage caused by a third party: act or omission?

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