Malicious Prosecution in UK Law

  • Crawford Adjusters (Cayman) Ltd v Sagicor General Insurance (Cayman) Ltd
    • Privy Council
    • 13 June 2013
    ... ... the scope of the closely related torts of abuse of process and malicious prosecution ... 2 The appellants are Mr ... ...
  • Willers v Joyce (No 1)
    • Supreme Court
    • 20 July 2016
    ... ... 1 This appeal raises the question whether the tort of malicious prosecution includes the prosecution of civil proceedings. It also raises ... ...
  • Thompson v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 19 February 1997
    ... ... on Miss Thompson's behalf Mr Emmerson stresses that this malicious prosecution involved the fabricating of a deliberately false case of the ... ...
  • Glinski v Mclver
    • House of Lords
    • 22 February 1962
    ... ... New Scotland Yard, claiming damages for false imprisonment and malicious prosecution. By his Statement of Claim as amended he alleged that he had ... ...
  • Rookes v Barnard
    • House of Lords
    • 21 January 1964
    ... ... Professor Holdsworth points out is in reality now equivalent to malicious prosecution) and has arisen out of the circumstances of modern industrial ... ...
  • Berry v British Transport Commission
    • Court of Appeal
    • 23 June 1961
    ... ... County Borough of Brighton and the appeal was allowed and the prosecution wholly determined in favour of the Appellant, and she received costs, ... 1959, issued a Writ against the Respondents claiming damages for malicious prosecution, and the Statement of Claim setting out the facts as I have ... ...
  • Doreen Ann Letang (Respondent) Frank Anthony Cooper (Appellant)
    • Court of Appeal
    • 15 June 1964
    ... ... category actions for trespass to the person, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution or defamation of character, but we do include such actions as ... ...
  • Riches v DPP
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 27 March 1973
    ... ... first of all, that it is an essential ingredient, on a claim for malicious prosecution, that express malice should be pleaded, and it is said that ... ...
  • Hill v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire
    • House of Lords
    • 28 April 1988
    ... ... damages for assault, unlawful arrest, wrongful imprisonment and malicious prosecution, and also for negligence. Instances where liability for ... ...
  • Broome v Cassell & Company Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 23 February 1972
    ... ... that a private individual misusing legal powers of private prosecution or arrest as in Leith v. Pope [1779] 2 Wm.B.1. 1327 , where the ... in exact proportion as it was unprovoked, unatoned for, or malicious. I would have thought the second category was ample to cover any form of ... ...
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