Unlawful Arrest in UK Law
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Costs: Nil Damages Offer Is A Valid Part 36 Offer
... ... entering certain countries, would have been required to declare the arrest. This would have caused disruption to his business activities ... The ... Claimant on condition the Defendant admitted liability for the unlawful arrest and removed all information about him from all police records. The ... ...
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A Decision To Chew On: Restraining Officer Acting In Execution Of Duty When Bitten Ms Siobhan Mullins and Laurie Swain
... ... of his colleagues in restraining the man were deemed to be unlawful, the officer was found to have an independent justification for his ... In Cumberbatch the Court held that "where the arrest of an individual by a police officer was unlawful, other police officers ... ...
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Cash Forfeiture: Insufficient Protections?
... ... property obtained through unlawful conduct) or intended by any person for use in unlawful conduct. If police ... An unlawful arrest does not mean that a person cannot be prosecuted if there is still ... ...
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Litigation Privilege Not Restricted To Parties To Litigation, And Other Helpful Points Regarding Privilege
... ... subsidiary companies of RAKIA which led to the claimant's ... arrest and conviction ... The claimant brought proceedings against the Firm and ... investigation. These included being responsible for (i) his ... unlawful arrest in and abduction from his home in Dubai, (ii) his ... extended ... ...
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Preventing The Unnecessary Arrest Of Your Client
... ... The High Court found that the arrest of the Claimant was unlawful because the necessity requirement was absent. He was awarded £1,000 for false imprisonment. The High Court found that there was no evidence as to ... ...
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Exclusion of deliberate acts in insurance policies (UK)
A June 2021 UK Supreme Court judgment has highlighted the difficulties insurers may face when relying on a intentional or deliberate acts exclusion. A bouncer at a pub in Aberdeen, Scotland had app...
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Extinction Rebellion Protests And Employment Law
... ... Arrest and criminal records ... It is worth noting that Extinction Rebellion's ... about protesters' rights and what action is lawful and unlawful, and notes that certain action could result in arrest and even ... ...
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False Imprisonment And Mentally Unwell Detainees
... ... her arrest and detention, and the case focused on the decisions ... made to take the ... The arrest of the claimant was unlawful as the arresting ... officer did not have reasonable grounds to suspect an ... ...
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A Greek Tragedy in Central London
... ... Churchill Junior accepted that the police had reasonable grounds to arrest him. However, he claimed that the failure to tell him the full proper ... date and circumstances of the alleged historic assault, made it unlawful. He also alleged that he had been thrown onto his bed, manhandled ... ...
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Better than Poirot...
... ... A recent case examines the threshold for arrest and the requirement of objective reasonable grounds for suspicion ... to the arresting officers and, therefore, the arrests were still unlawful ... The Defendant's Case ... The Chief Constable of Thames Valley ... ...
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