2007
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Cases Reported |
| R v (1) Hickinbottom, (2) Wood and (3) Clark | 1 |
| Issue: Whether, in bringing a charge of gross negligence manslaughter against police officers, it was necessary for the Crown to adduce evidence of the standard of care to be applied by police officers | |
| R v United Kingdom | 3 |
| Issue: Whether a police warning involved the determination of a criminal charge within the meaning of Art 6 ECHR | |
| Van Colle v Chief Constable of Hertfordshire Police | 7 |
| Issue: Whether Art 2 ECHR imposed a duty on the police to protect a witness who was being threatened, whether they were in breach of this duty, whether any breach caused the witness’ death, and the appropriate award of compensation | |
| R (Independent Police Complaints Commission) v Chief Constable of West Mercia; and PC Walton (interested party) | 32 |
| Issue: Whether disciplinary proceedings against a police officer were an abuse of process because the issue in the disciplinary proceedings had been resolved, in the officer’s favour, at a coroner’s inquest | |
| Lake v British Transport Police | 40 |
| Issue: Whether the police were immune from a claim under the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1997 based on the dismissal of an officer by a police discipline panel | |
| Ramsahai and Others v Netherlands | 46 |
| Issue: Whether the circumstances of a fatal shooting by police amounted to a violation of Art 2; whether the words “absolutely necessary” in Art 2(2) indicated a stricter test of necessity than the words “necessary in a democratic society” in Arts 8(2) and 11(2); whether the investigation into the shooting was sufficiently effective and independent | |
| R (Bennett) v HM Coroner for Inner South London; and Officers A and B, and Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis (Interested Parties) | 84 |
| Issue: Whether the coroner had erred in her direction to the jury as to the training given to police officers that they were only to fire weapons when absolutely necessary; whether an open verdict had truly been left to the jury; the test to be applied by a coroner in considering what verdicts to leave to the jury | |
| R (Independent Police Complaints Commission) v AC Hayman, PC Bell and PC Wakeling | 90 |
| Issue: Whether an Assistant Commissioner had been entitled to overturn the findings of a discipline panel, and the ambit of a Chief Constable’s Review under the Police (Conduct) Regulations 2004 | |
| R (L) v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis; R (G) v Chief Constable of Staffordshire Police | 98 |
| Issue: Whether non-criminal matters may be disclosed in an enhanced criminal record certificate; and, if so, whether including non-criminal matters breached Art 8 ECHR on the facts | |
| R (L) v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis | 115 |
| Issue: Whether non-criminal matters may be disclosed on an enhanced criminal record certificate and, if so, whether including non-criminal matters amounted, in the circumstances, to a breach of Art 8 ECHR | |
| R (A and others) v South Yorkshire Police and CPS | 124 |
| Issue: Whether a decision to prosecute youths for criminal damage, rather than issue a final warning, was lawful | |
| Kay v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis | 135 |
| Issue: Whether notice under s11 of the Public Order Act 1986 had to be given of a mass cycle ride that was held at the same time and departing from the same location on the last Friday of each month | |
| Secic v Croatia | 146 |
| Issue: Whether a police investigation that failed to identify those involved in a serious assault amounted to a breach of Arts 3, 8 and 14 ECHR | |
| Kontrova v Slovakia | 154 |
| Issue: Whether the failure to deal effectively with allegations of assault by a husband amounted to a breach of Arts 2 and 8 ECHR in the light of the husband’s subsequent murder of the family’s children, and whether there had been consequential breaches of Arts 6 and 13 ECHR | |
| Seal v Chief Constable of South Wales Police | 163 |
| Issue: Whether a failure to obtain leave in accordance with s139 Mental Health Act 1983 before bringing civil proceedings in respect of acts purportedly done under the Act rendered the proceedings a nullity | |
| Blum and Others v DPP and Others | 175 |
| Issue: Whether convictions relating to unauthorised demonstrations breached Arts 10 and/or 11 ECHR when the demonstrations had not been disorderly | |
| Austin and Saxby v Commissioner of Police | 182 |
| Issue: Whether it was lawful to put a cordon around a group of protestors and others in Oxford Circus and detain them for 7 hours | |
| R (Independent Police Complaints Commission) v Chief Constable of West Midlands Police | 205 |
| Issue: Whether there is discretion to permit a representative of the IPCC to be present at a chief constable’s review conducted under the Police (Conduct) Regulations 2004 | |
| R (Bolt) v Chief Constable of Merseyside | 212 |
| Issue: Whether a chief officer was entitled not to implement the recommendation of another chief officer, following a review carried out under the Police (Conduct) Regulations 1999, that an officer should be reinstated | |
| Raissi v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis | 226 |
| Issue: Whether a duty of care was owed by the police to a victim of crime to investigate the crime | |
| Vicario v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis | 238 |
| Issue: Whether a duty of care was owed by the police to a victim of crime to investigate the crime | |
| Chief Constable of the Greater Manchester Police v Wigan Athletic AFC Ltd | 246 |
| Issue: Whether a football club was liable to pay certain of the costs of providing policing for matches that were held | |
| R (Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis) v Croydon Crown Court and Burrell | 294 |
| Issue: Whether the Crown Court had erred in not imposing a sexual offences prevention order on a man who had been convicted of 6 very similar indecent assaults over a period of 30 years | |
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