The Weekly Law Reports
[1999] 2 WLR 103
[COURT OF APPEAL]
REGINA v. GOVERNOR OF BROCKHILL PRISON, Ex parte EVANS (No. 2)
1998 May 12,
13;
June 19
June 19
Lord Woolf M.R., Roch and Judge L.JJ.
False Imprisonment
— Prisoner serving sentence
— Damages
— Mis-calculation of release date
— Calculation on basis of authoritative judicial decisions
— Decisions subsequently overruled
— Whether entitlement to damages for false imprisonment
— Whether relevant that prison authorities not at fault
— Assessment of damages