Woodcock and CJ & PJ appeals this week (live-streamed)
29th October 2024
Mat Holdcroft and Cecily White (led by Andrew Warnock KC and instructed by Keiron Walsh) act for the police force parties in these Court of Appeal hearings concerning liability of the police for the criminal actions of a third party and alleged police failure to investigate:
(1) CJ & PJ (by her mother & Litigation Friend DJ) & anr (appellants) v The Chief Constable of Wiltshire Police (respondent) (in which Mat and Cecily also appeared for the respondent below)
and
(2) Woodcock (respondent) v The Chief Constable of Northamptonshire Police (appellant) (in which Mat also appeared for the appellant below)
The hearings listed Monday 28th to Wednesday 30th have been selected for live-streaming as “high profile and legally significant case[s]”, in order to “increase open justice and improve public access and understanding of the justice system”. Please click here for the link to watch the proceedings live, or on video afterwards.
These appeals follow last week’s Supreme Court dismissal of the appeal in Tindall v CC of Thames Valley Police (in which Andrew Warnock KC and Ella Davis appeared) the court unanimously re-iterated the law as set out in Michael, stated that the law in relation to negligence is not in flux, and that the police do not have a special status in relation to those known to be at a special risk of personal harm.
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