Police Negligence in UK Law
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Robinson v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police
... ... Most of those issues can be decided by applying long-established principles of the law of negligence. The fact that the issues have reached this court reflects the extent to which those principles have been eroded in recent times by uncertainty and ... ...
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Hill v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire
... ... a terrifying career of violent crime, centred in the metropolitan police area of West Yorkshire. All his victims were young or fairly young women ... on behalf of Miss Hill's estate damages on the ground of negligence, for inter alia loss of expectation of life and pain and suffering. The ... ...
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Reeves v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
... ... He also gave the Commissioner leave to amend the defence to raise an alternative plea of contributory negligence. On the assumption that the death had been caused partly by the fault of the Commissioner and partly by the fault of Mr. Lynch, he assessed the ... ...
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White and Others v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police and Others
... ... a defendant owes a duty of care not to cause personal injury it mattered not whether the injury suffered as a result of the defendant's negligence was physical injury or psychiatric injury and liability would be established without the necessity to prove as an independent part of the cause of ... ...
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Brooks v Metropolitan Police Commisioner
... ... Two considerations, however, persuade me that this appeal should be allowed and the respondent's claims in common law negligence struck out ... 4 The first is that the facts of this case have been exhaustively investigated. While theoretically the facts are only to be ... ...
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Van Colle and Another v Chief Constable of the Hertfordshire Police
... ... the risk to life in the circumstances known at the time or to take preventative measures to avoid that risk must be tantamount to gross negligence or wilful disregard of the duty to protect life. Such a rigid standard would be incompatible with the obligation of member states to secure the ... ...
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Swinney v Chief Constable of Northumbria Police Force
... ... As a result, in paragraph 12 of the proposed amended Statement of Claim, it is said that what occurred was caused by the negligence, and then there is added "and/or the breach of duty of confidentiality of the defendant's officers." ... 4 In his submission in ... ...
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Knightley v Johns
... ... of the West Midlands Respondent (Third Defendant) Police Inspector Sommerville Respondent (Fourth Defendant) ... Cotton's oncoming motor car. He sued Mr. Cotton for negligence in causing him serious injuries. He also sued Police Inspector Sommerville ... ...
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Barrett v Enfield London Borough Council
... ... deep-seated psychiatric problems caused by the defendant's negligence ... 2 The full circumstances of this case (as alleged by the plaintiff ... had sought to bring proceedings in the United Kingdom against the police alleging negligence in the prevention and pursuit of crime. Those ... ...
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Ashley v Chief Constable of Sussex Police
... ... The causes of action that are relied on by the Ashleys are (i) assault and battery, or alternatively negligence, by PC Sherwood in his shooting of the deceased, (ii) negligence and misfeasance in public office in relation to the police's pre-shooting ... ...
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