R (G) v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police – WLR Daily

Posted February 7th, 2008 in detention, law reports, police by sally

R (G) v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police [2008] EWCA Civ 28; [2008] WLR (D) 35

“A custody officer who had determined that he had sufficient evidence to charge a suspect with the offence for which he had been arrested had no power to detain the suspect in custody for the purpose of enabling a Crown Prosecutor to decide whether or not the suspect should be charged.”

WLR Daily, 6th February 2008

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