5th Dec 2023Newsletters
Yet another successful judicial review by a police force of the findings of the police misconduct panel you say? Not quite. The reader will be no doubt delighted to know that this article represents something rather different to my usual lament, involving (as it usually does) sorry tales of the writer valiantly snatching defeat from […]
28th Nov 2022News
Another day, another successful challenge by a police force of the findings of a police conduct panel. Thankfully, this case at least gives the writer an excuse to descend into gun or shooting based puns in an attempt to lighten the mood. That is despite the case generating a feeling of both weary familiarity and […]
15th Oct 2021Blog
“What’s the difference between a multimillionaire new club owner and human rights? Only some people get them…” Introduction That observation was but one pithy analysis of many. Such observations were duly doing the rounds on the Internet and social media, following the recent £305 million Saudi Arabian backed PIF sovereign wealth fund takeover of Newcastle […]
26th May 2021Newsletters
Chief Constable Nottinghamshire Police v Police Appeals Tribunal ((Police Sergeant Jonathan Flint Interested Party) [2021] EWHC 1248 (Admin) Introduction On 12 May the Administrative Court handed down judgment in The Chief Constable of Nottinghamshire Police v Police Appeals Tribunal. As I had done below at the Police Appeals Tribunal (“PAT”), and throughout the original police […]
5th Nov 2020Newsletters
Introduction The Court of Appeal has recently delivered an interesting and potentially very significant judgment in the case of Officer W80. The case concerned the use of force by a police officer and whether misconduct proceedings could subsequently be instituted against him on the basis of his honestly held but mistaken belief. Facts The facts […]
