R (Ali) v Police Appeals Tribunal

Subject Matter

POLICE — Discipline — Misconduct — Student police officer called to informal meeting to explain suspected plagiarism in coursework — Formal regulatory notice then issued — Subsequent misconduct investigation including allegation of misleading and dishonest conduct at informal meeting — Officer dismissed without notice — Appeals tribunal upholding decision — Officer challenging propriety of reliance on conduct at informal meeting — Whether failure to give formal notice before meeting amounting to breach of regulatory regime — Police (Conduct) Regulations 2012 (SI 2012/2632), reg 15

[2022] EWHC 646 (Admin); [2022] ICR 949; [2022] WLR(D) 140, QBD