Unlawful Arrest in UK Law
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Policy, Practicalities, and PACE s. 24: The Subsuming of the Necessity Criteria in Arrest Decision Making by Frontline Police Officers
PACE, as amended by the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005, establishes a complex framework of factors that police officers must consider during arrest decision making. Officers must posse...... ... This means that unlawful and non-human-rights-compliant arrests continue to be regularly made and, equally significantly, many suspects are escaping the criminal justice ... ...
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Resisting Unlawful Arrests
... ... v Crown Prosecution Service; Ali v Director of Public Prosecutions [2009] EWHC 3353 (Admin) (2010) 174 JP 149 Keywords Unlawful arrest; Resisting arrest; Self-defence; Obstruction; Police officer; Execution of duty The appellant Ali was convicted in the magistrates’ court of three ... ...
- Index to Volume 74: Parts 1, 2 and 3
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The Police and the Law
... ... the LawARRESTWITHOUTWARRANTUNDERSTATUTEANDATCOMMONLAWINthe law of arrest the distinction between an arrest made undercommon law powers and an ... charged under the Liverpool Corporation Act, 1921,s, 5°7, with " unlawful possession" of a bale of cloth. He was detainedin custody until the ... ...
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Index to Volume 74: Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4
... ... in 290 Racially offensive web postings 205 Resisting unlawful arrests 189 v ... Right to a Newton hearing 7 *School admissions, ... 91 *Transferred malice in multiple-actor scenarios 145 Unlawful arrest, resisting 189 Web postings, racially offensive 205 The ... ...
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Unlawful Possession
... ... crime in its early stages if they have the benefit of powers outlined in the opening paragraph, than if they have to arrest a man under the common law of having reasonable cause to suspect a felony, and then to charge him with stealing the property of some ... ...
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Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
... ... Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ARREST ON REASONABLE SUSPICION Shaaban bin Hussien v. Chong Fook Kan A LT HO ... Both men sued the police for unlawful arrest and false imprisonment. The net question was whether the ... ...
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The Police and the Law
... ... The Police and the Law ARREST OF SUSPECTED PERSON: A NEW POINT O NCE more the courts have been ... A recent case in which damages for unlawful arrest were recovered from the Police occurred at Carlisle County ... ...
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Liability for Wrongful Deprivation of Liberty: Malice and Police Privilege
... ... that where claims are made against police officers for wrongful arrest, a form of “privilege” exists, requiring want of probable cause and ... enough for the pursuer to show that his detention and arrest were unlawful, and at proof he would require to establish malice in addition. 16 ... ...
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House of Lords
... ... Can an agreement to perform an act which would not be "unlawful" if performed by a single person become a conspiracy merely because ... Upon his later claiming that he was the victim of unlawful arrest, the Court of Appeal held that the action should be struck out, on ... ...
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