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R (Officer W80) v Director General of the Independent Office for Police Conduct

Hearings

England & Wales

14 Aug 2019 [2019] EWHC 2215 (Admin), DC

09 Oct 2020 [2020] EWCA Civ 1301; [2021] 1 WLR 418; [2020] WLR(D) 556, CA (Sir Geoffrey Vos C, Macur, Nicola Davies LJJ)

13 Dec 2021 (appn all) [2022] 1 WLR 700, SC(E) (Lord Reed PSC, Lord Leggatt, Lord Stephens JJSC)

05 Jul 2023 [2023] UKSC 24; [2023] 1 WLR 2300; [2023] ICR 1103; [2023] 4 All ER 407; The Times, 7 August 2023, SC(E) (Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lord Sales, Lord Leggatt, Lord Burrows, Lord Stephens JJSC)

Subject Matter

POLICE — Discipline — Misconduct — Firearms officer shooting and killing suspect in mistaken belief suspect armed — Whether officer having case to answer for gross misconduct in using excessive force — Whether gross misconduct to be assessed by reference to criminal law test relating to self-defence — Police (Conduct) Regulations 2012 (SI 2012/2632), Sch 2

[2020] EWCA Civ 1301; [2021] 1 WLR 418; [2020] WLR(D) 556, CA

POLICE — Discipline — Misconduct — Police officer shooting and killing suspect in mistaken belief suspect armed — Whether officer having case to answer for gross misconduct in using unreasonable force — Whether reasonableness of force used to be assessed by reference to criminal law test relating to self-defence or civil law test — Police (Conduct) Regulations 2012 (SI 2012/2632), Sch 2

[2023] UKSC 24; [2023] 1 WLR 2300; [2023] ICR 1103; [2023] 4 All ER 407; The Times, 7 August 2023, SC(E)

Appellate History

R (Officer W80) v Director General of the Independent Office for Police Conduct [2019] EWHC 2215 (Admin), DC

Decision of the Divisional Court of the Queen’s Bench Division reversed

R (Officer W80) v Director General of the Independent Office for Police Conduct [2020] EWCA Civ 1301; [2021] 1 WLR 418; [2020] WLR(D) 556, CA

Decision of the Court of Appeal affirmed on partly different grounds

R (Officer W80) v Director General of the Independent Office for Police Conduct [2023] UKSC 24; [2023] 1 WLR 2300; [2023] ICR 1103; [2023] 4 All ER 407; The Times, 7 August 2023, SC(E)

Commentary

UK Human Rights Blog
Use of force by police: what is the standard for determining misconduct? Case comment

UK Supreme Court Blog
New Judgment: R (on the application of Officer W80) v Director General of the Independent Office for Police Conduct and others [2023] UKSC 24. Case comment

Law Society Gazette
Supreme Court backs civil law test for police disciplinary proceedings Case comment

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