Index card Searson v Chief Constable of Nottinghamshire Police

Searson v Chief Constable of Nottinghamshire Police

Hearings

England & Wales

25 Jul 2025 [2025] EWHC 1982 (KB); [2026] 1 WLR 103; [2025] WLR(D) 416, KBD (Wall J)

Subject Matter

POLICE — Duties — Persons detained — Review officer authorising person’s continued detention at police station — Whether failure to comply with review requirements rendering subsequent detention unlawful — Whether review officer failing to comply with requirement to give person’s solicitor opportunity to make representations about review decision — Proper approach to damages to be awarded where defective review rendering detention unlawful — Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (c 60), s 40

[2025] EWHC 1982 (KB); [2026] 1 WLR 103; [2025] WLR(D) 416, KBD

Commentary

UK Human Rights Blog
Keeping PACE: Searson and Searson v CC of Nottinghamshire Constabulary Case comment

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