The calculator allows police officers to see an illustration of their projected pension benefits. The Home Office states that this calculator will provide an illustration of a police pension at a chosen retirement age. The results shown are only estimates, based on inputs and other assumptions. This calculator is for guidance purposes and is an estimate only. […]
In the case of Eiseman Renyard and Others v United Kingdom (2019) Application no. 57884/17, the European Court of Human Rights has declined to disturb the decision of the Supreme Court in R (Hicks) v Comr Metropolitan Police[2017] UKSC 9; [2017] AC 256, concerning the arrest and detention of royal wedding protesters, for breach of the peace. As […]
In Catt v United Kingdom [2019] ECHR 76, the European Court departed from and disagreed with the Supreme Court, holding that the police’s collection and retention of data of a peaceful protestor was an unlawful interference with Article 8 of the Convention. Mr Catt was a 94-year-old man from Brighton; a peaceful protestor who regularly […]
In R (CL) v Chief Constable of Greater Manchester & Secretary of State for the Home Department [2018] EWHC 3333 (Admin), the Divisional Court held that the retention by the police of crime reports which related to sexting incidents in which a schoolboy had allegedly been involved did not breach his rights under Article 8 […]
The case to answer test remains unchanged but new time limits are imposed in which the CTA decision is taken and for the holding of any misconduct hearing. The IOPC is also now given the power to present cases. […]