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Duty of care: It‘s a fair cop
Patrick West explores a recent Supreme Court case on police liability ‘Is there a general rule that police are not under any duty of care when discharging their function of investigating and preventing crime?‘ Everyone who has passed through law school will remember the case about the snail in the ginger beer. Poor old Mrs …
Cases Referenced
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- Anns v Merton London Borough Council [1977] UKHL 4
- Caparo Industries plc v Dickman [1990] UKHL 2
- Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis v DSD & anor [2018] UKSC 11
- Desmond v Chief Constable of Nottinghamshire Police [2011] EWCA Civ 3
- Entick v Carrington (1765) EWHC KB J98
- Hill v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire [1987] UKHL 12
- Michael v Chief Constable of South Wales Police [2015] UKSC 2
- Rigby & anor v Chief Constable of Northamptonshire [1985] 1 WLR 1242
- Robinson v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police [2018] UKSC 4
- Smith v The Ministry of Defence [2013] UKSC 41
- Stovin v Wise [1996] UKHL 15