The Law Reports (Appeal Cases)
[2017] AC 256
Supreme Court
Regina (Hicks and others) v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis (Secretary of State for the Home Department intervening)
[2017] UKSC 9
2016 June 28,
29;
2017 Feb 15
Lord Mance, Lord Reed, Lord Carnwath JJSC, Lord Dyson, Lord Toulson
Human rights— Liberty— Deprivation of— Claimants detained by police for duration of Royal Wedding in order to prevent breaches of peace— Claimants released without having been brought before magistrates’ court— Police contending each claimant’s detention lawful as “necessary to prevent his committing an offence”— Whether person’s detention also required to have been “effected for the purpose of bringing him before the competent legal authority” where not reasonably practicable to bring him before court before release— Whether breach of claimants’ right to liberty—
Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, art 5.1(b)(c)