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Pii and police complaints

01 July 1994

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In a landmark judgment in July, the House of Lords decided that documents generated by an investigation of a complaint against the police do not automatically attract public interest immunity (pii), although there may be circumstances in which pii still attaches. The decision reverses thirteen years of confidentiality surrounding police complaints which had led to absurd consequences and led to victims of police misbehaviour refusing to cooperate with the police complaints procedure because they were unable to see a copy of their statement of complaint for use in an action against the police.

R v Chief Constable of the West Midlands Police ex parte Wiley R v Chief Constable of Nottinghamshire Police ex parte Sunderland 14.7.94.

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