CR19 v The Chief Constable of The Police Service of Northern Ireland
| Jurisdiction | Northern Ireland |
| Judge | Coghlin LJ |
| Judgment Date | 26 June 2014 |
| Neutral Citation | [2014] NICA 54 |
| Date | 26 June 2014 |
| Year | 2014 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Northern Ireland) |
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Neutral Citation No. [2014] NICA 54 Ref:
COG9320
Judgment: approved by the Court for handing down Delivered:
26/06/2014
(subject to editorial corrections)*
IN HER MAJESTY’S COURT OF APPEAL IN NORTHERN IRELAND
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Between
CR19
Plaintiff/Appellant
and
THE CHIEF CONSTABLE OF THE POLICE SERVICE OF
NORTHERN IRELAND
Defendant/Respondent
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Before: Girvan LJ, Coghlin LJ and O’Hara J
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COGHLIN LJ (delivering the judgment of the court)
Introduction
[1] This is an appeal by CR19 (“the appellant”) from a judgment of Horner J as a
consequence of which the appellant was awarded the sum of £20,000 as
compensation for damages for personal injuries, loss and damage, sustained by the
appellant by reason of the negligence and breach of statutory duty of the Chief
Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (“the PSNI”) together with
interest at 2% over a period of some 6 years producing, in total, a final sum of
£22,400. The appellant presented his appeal in this court personally without legal
representation while Mr Hanna QC and Mr David Dunlop appeared on behalf of the
respondent. We are grateful for the assistance that the court derived from all of their
carefully prepared and eloquently delivered written and oral submissions.
[2] The appellant made an initial application to this court for a direction that the
appeal should be conducted as a ‘closed’ hearing from which the public should be
excluded. It appears that no such application at been made at first instance. Bearing
in mind that the appellant is to be referred to only as CR19 and that the court was
unable to discern any basis for altering the fundamental commitment of these courts
to a system of open justice the application was refused.
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