The court considered damages to be awarded for false imprisonment: ‘ . . any evidence which tends to aggravate or mitigate the damage to a man’s reputation which flows naturally from his imprisonment must be admissible up to the moment when damages are assessed. A false imprisonment does not merely affect a man’s liberty, it also affects his reputation. The damage continues until it is caused to cease by an avowal that the imprisonment was false.’
Judges:
Lawrence LJ
Citations:
(1944) 61 TLR 39
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Disapproved – Lunt v Liverpool City Justices CA 5-Mar-1991
A man of good reputation had been imprisoned for forty two days wholly unjustifiably for alleged default in payment of rates. He sought damages.
Held: The Court increased the award from andpound;13,500.00 to andpound;25,000.00. Commenting on . .
Cited – Independent Assessor v O’Brien, Hickey, Hickey CA 29-Jul-2004
The claimants had been imprisoned for many years before their convictions were quashed. They claimed compensation under the Act. The assessor said that there should be deducted from the award the living expenses they would have incurred if they had . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Damages, Torts – Other
Updated: 17 July 2022; Ref: scu.199752
