The claimants were police and former police officers who alledged mistreatment by other officers investigating them both during the investigation (LW3) and during their subsequent criminal trials.
Held: All the claims for misfeasance in public office failed. After detailed consideration some claims succeeded and some failed. On the whole there was no evidence of the officers having either deliberately or recklessly exceeded his/her powers during the course of discharging his/her duty during the course of LW3.
Wyn Williams J
[2016] EWHC 1367 (QB)
Bailii, Judicary Summary, Judiciary
England and Wales
Torts – Other, Police
Updated: 01 November 2021; Ref: scu.565543