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False Imprisonment

Answer

The table below shows the total amounts claimed against closed false imprisonment matters from the 2011/12, 2012/13 and 2013/14 financial years. These matters cover domestic false imprisonment, and both legal and illegal immigration false imprisonment matters.

The claim values represent the total amounts paid against cases closing in the respective period, and as such, some of the expenditure against these cases may have been incurred in earlier periods. The costs are recorded as falling in the category Actions Against the Police.

Financial Year	Claim Value
2011-12	£191,556.33
2012-13	£134,999.82
2013-14	£517,980.45

The increase in claim value in 2013/14 compared to previous years is largely due to one case which started in 2002, for which a final bill was submitted in January 2014. This case, known as Austin and Saxby, was a test case on behalf of a much larger group of individuals relating to protests on May Day 2002. They claimed that they had been unlawfully subjected to the procedure known as kettling by the Metropolitan Police. The case went to the House of Lords (Supreme Court) where they lost and the law was eventually clarified.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

HL1440

Session

2014-15

Related items

Undocumented Migrants: Detainees
Tuesday, 24 June 2014
Written questions
House of Lords

Subjects

Legal aid scheme False imprisonment

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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