The Weekly Law Reports
[1980] 1 WLR 172
[HOUSE OF LORDS]
FARRELL (FORMERLY McLAUGHLIN) RESPONDENT AND SECRETARY OF STATE FOR DEFENCE APPELLANT
1979 Nov. 5,
6;
Dec. 19
Dec. 19
Viscount Dilhorne, Lord Edmund-Davies, Lord Fraser of Tullybelton, Lord Russell of Killowen and Lord Lane
Northern Ireland
— Crime
— Prevention of
— Suspected bomb attack onbank
— Soldiers shooting and killing man acting suspiciously
— Action by widow alleging negligence and assault and battery by soldiers
— Whether force used by soldiers “reasonable in the circumstances”
— Whether negligence by others in planning of operation, if proved, depriving soldiers of defence
—
Criminal Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1967 (c. 18), s. 3 (1)