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CA Suggest No Need for Causation in HRA Claims? - Edward Bishop QC, 1 Chancery Lane

05/11/13. The Court of Appeal has given judgment in Sarjantson v The Chief Constable of Humberside Police [2013] EWCA Civ 1252, an important and interesting decision on the operation of police officers’ duties to protect citizens under the Human Rights Act 1998 (“HRA”).

Mr Sarjantson (“C”) was attacked and injured by a group of young men armed with baseball bats and bricks in the early hours of 9thSeptember 2006. Several members of the public made 999 calls to the police, describing the group as violent and dangerous and reporting that they were attacking various people. The first time that C’s name was mentioned - as a victim of the attacks - was about seven minutes after the first...

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